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 ...

On July 28, people from all over Canada joined IT World Canada online to celebrate the top women in Canadian cybersecurity as identified by their peers. The second annual Top Women in ...

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 ...

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.

High productivity is masking exhausted workforces globally, and the situation is worse in Canada, according to Microsoft’s annual Work Trend Index. The latest check-in with more than 31,000 ...

Google Canada has lost its bid for an exemption from federal privacy law for its search engine results, raising the possibility that a digital “right to be forgotten” may be recognized in ...

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 ...

Human error continues to be a leading factor in data breaches, according to Verizon’s annual analysis of cyberattacks around the world. That was one of the ...

While the U.N. General Assembly last week debated a resolution demanding Russia withdraw from Ukraine, in a nearby conference room countries began another attempt to put some teeth behind the ...

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 ...

There’s usually a word or phrase that sums up my annual Cybersecurity Year in Review. “Lack of resilience” was 2022’s theme, highlighting the Canada-wide outage at Rogers Communications.