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Apple, Amazon Deny Report Chinese Spies Hit Servers
Bloomberg published a report on Thursday that the Chinese government placed microchips in Apple and Amazon servers to gain access to intellectual property and trade secrets. Both tech giants, chip maker Super Micro, and Beijing all...
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Apple, Amazon Deny Report That Chinese Spies Hit Servers
Bloomberg published a report on Thursday that the Chinese government placed microchips in Apple and Amazon servers to gain access to intellectual property and trade secrets. Both tech giants, chip maker Super Micro, and Beijing all...
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Google Kills Google+ in Wake of Security Vulnerability
The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday that Google had exposed over 500,000 Google + user's data in one of the biggest tech gaffs which eventually lead Google to shutting down Google Plus. Douglas MacMillan, reporter who broke the...
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Are Users Finally Wising Up to What They Share on Facebook?
With Facebook racing to contain the damage from its latest -- and largest ever -- security breach, Michael Nuñez, the deputy tech editor for Mashable, said that users are starting to get smarter about what kind of data they share with...
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Former Obama Adviser: Big Tech and the Government Aren't Doing Enough
Dipayan Ghosh, fellow at the Shorenstein Center and a former adviser to both Facebook and the Obama White House, said that big tech has been ignoring "the little guy" for a long time and putting tech users and their privacy at risk.
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Microsoft Uncovers New Russian Hacking Scheme
Microsoft said it disabled a handful of sites in a new spear-phishing scheme with ties to Russian intelligence.
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Ransom demanded for patients' records in Ontario data breach
The group claiming responsibility for the breach recently contacted CBC News saying they, "requested compensation in exchange for telling [the provider] how to fix their security issues and for us to not leak data online."
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Hackers reveal how they got bank information
Roughly 90,000 Canadians who bank with CIBC-owned Simplii or Bank of Montreal had their personal information compromised.
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Health Canada reviewing fix to protect pacemakers from hackers
A U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved programming fix for pacemakers that are currently vulnerable to hacking is now being reviewed by Health Canada
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Customer data hacked at CIBC and Bank of Montreal
Customer data was hacked at CIBC-owned Simplii and the Bank of Montreal, affecting tens of thousands of people.
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How safe are the Canadian government's servers?
Questions linger after the Canada Revenue Agency shut down systems over the weekend
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WikiLeaks claims CIA can bypass encryption
A recent release of documents by WikiLeaks, purportedly taken from the Central Intelligence Agency, appears to give a picture of the agency's spy toolbox
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Hackers target European Commission
Hackers have targeted the European Commission’s computer network – trying to overload and crash it. Officials say connection speeds were affected on Thursday, but there was no data breach. “The Commission was indeed targeted by an...
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Pirate Party surges in Iceland ahead of Parliamentary election
Polls suggest the party, formed in 2012 by a group of anarchists, hackers and internet-freedom activists, is supported by as many as one in five voters
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Cyberattack
Jerome Segura, lead malware intelligence analyst at Malwarebytes, on keeping hospitals safe
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Router hack warning
Off-brand modems and routers from your internet provider may be compromised
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CSEC is watching
Top secret documents reveal Communications Security Establishment Canada is scanning and collecting data on its networks
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Cybercrime and cities
Hackers pose a bigger, dangerous and more nefarious threat to our cities
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When ransomware hackers go after the public library
A ransomware attack in October took many of the Toronto Public Library’s services offline for months. CBC’s Anya Zoledziowski breaks down the library’s efforts to rebuild its services and examines why hackers may have targeted it in the...
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Why The Weather Network refused to pay its ransomware attacker
Ransomware attacks are on the rise with hackers demanding trillions around the world, but there’s a growing push not to pay to unlock the data. CBC’s Jonathon Gatehouse breaks down why The Weather Network refused to pay.
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Hackers Threaten to Leak Sensitive Reddit User Data Over Policy Changes
Hackers Threaten to Leak Sensitive Reddit User Data Over Policy Changes
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Pro-Russia group claims responsibility for series of cyberattacks
A pro-Russia group has claimed responsibility for taking down Hydro-Québec's website. It was just one of several Canadian websites, including that of the Prime Minister's Office, that were targeted.
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FBI Warns Against Using Public Mobile Device Charging Stations
The FBI recently issued a warning to users to be wary of public device charging stations that you might find in places like hotels or airports over fears that criminals