(email helpline now available at Heartbleed.ca) TORONTO, April 8, 2014 /CNW/ – A security advisory for the Internet’s most popular encryption library warns of a simple software bug that has the…

TORONTO, April 3, 2014 /CNW/ – Almost a year after the Snowden revelations began surfacing, as many as half of Canadian executives and business owners are still unaware that ongoing Internet…

TORONTO, March 17, 2014 /CNW/ – A company’s information assets can amount to 80% or more of its value. For many Canadian companies, the intangible nature of sensitive data can present significant…

TORONTO, March 12, 2014 /CNW/ – Using armies of infected computers, criminals launch overwhelming attacks that victimize hundreds of companies daily (digitalattackmap.com), costing data centres an…

TORONTO, March 10, 2014 /CNW/ – External IT security & privacy compliance check-ups are considered basic practices in every industry sector. Weekly revelations of damaging data breaches in retail,…

TORONTO, March 14, 2014 /CNW/ – Many of the security and privacy breaches from the past year have been traced to failures to protect data. Surprisingly, responsibility fell on trusted third parties…

TORONTO, Jan. 27, 2014 /CNW/ – In the wake of the colossal Target security breach that compromised over 100 million customer accounts and may yet impact hundreds of thousands of Canadian consumers,…

TORONTO, Jan. 13, 2013 /CNW/ – Recent security breaches at Target, Neiman Marcus and at least three other large retail chains are estimated to top 100 million cardholders and their personal…

TORONTO, Dec. 20, 2013 /CNW/ – With an estimated sales growth of 14% over last Christmas, retailers and ecommerce vendors are expecting a revenue boost this holiday season. But according to experts…

TORONTO, Dec. 12, 2013 /CNW/ – The latest revelations about Internet surveillance carried out covertly by Canada’s CSEC and the U.S. NSA have validated what Canadian regulators, lobbyists and…