TORONTO, May 12, 2014 /CNW/ – The unintended consequences, benefits and dangers of social media are often misunderstood, sometimes leading to tragic consequences. Despite hundreds of groups and…

TORONTO, May 6, 2014 /CNW/ – Canada’s 1.1 million businesses will need to verify the way they contact customers and improve their security before Bill C-28 takes effect July 1st. Until January 1,…

TORONTO, April 30, 2014 /CNW/ – 2014 has been a busy year for the IT security industry, with a succession of colossal breaches each impacting more than 100 million users. According to security…

TORONTO, April 21, 2014 /CNW/ – Informatica Security, Canada’s leading provider of data protection and privacy risk assessments announced that Heartbleed vulnerability analysis is now included by…

TORONTO, April 11, 2014 /CNW/ – From the first reports of the Heartbleed OpenSSL bug earlier this week, IT departments have scrambled to reduce their exposure to the risk and notify concerned users…

(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,…