The end of 2019 marked the end of a decade that has been marked by rapid technological development, advancing data-use research, and an increasingly hyper-connective global infrastructure.

The Desjardins Group, North America's largest credit union federation, experienced a data breach exposing private data of 2.7 people. Credit: CP/Lee Brown Canada’s largest financial services ...

As the barrier to entry for deploying ransomware becomes frighteningly low, experts warn that municipalities are increasingly vulnerable to these threats. Ransomware reared its ugly head many ...

The Top Women in Cybersecurity Celebration is an initiative created by IT World Canada in association with the Women in Security & Resilience Alliance (WISECRA) and the Canadian Women in Security ...

From top left: Brent Downey, Natalia Mykhaylova, Melissa Chee, the Honourable Mary Ng, Minister of Small Business and Export Promotion and Member of Parliament for Markham–Thornhill, Markham ...

The rapid growth of encryption technology has revolutionized the online marketplace and helped to enable the creation of anonymous online networks, like the Dark Net — a hidden forum for which ...

It was one of the biggest IT boondoggles in Canadian government history, and it’s still going. The Phoenix payroll system was part of a federal government investment in consolidating and ...

Cloud computing and cloud-service providers have brought about a significant shift in the globalized delivery of information technology services and computing resources. This article is the first ...

Android malware is one of the most serious threats on the internet and has witnessed an unprecedented upsurge in recent years. There is a need to share the fundamental understanding of behaviour ...

This is the Year in Review podcast for 2022. I’m Howard Solomon contributing reporter on cybersecurity for IT World Canada.com. With me are Terry Cutler, head of Cyology Labs in Montreal and ...

No one likes malicious botnets, but Canada’s telecom regulator has found no industry support around its suggestion that carriers and internet providers be part of a mandatory network-based ...

In this article, we will venture into the realm of Canadian cybersecurity laws as they relate to interpersonal privacy, data breaches, network attacks, and other computer-related activities of a ...