A 39-year-old truck driver has been sent to jail for 18 months for cyber stalking a 16-year-old Canadian actress, Vancouver Sun reports. David William Cholin pleaded guilty to harassing the actress between 2006 and March 2010 in what has become the first case in British Columbia involving a cyber stalker of a celebrity using social [...]
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Canada is the new breeding ground for cyber criminals and is experiencing a 319 percent increase in phishing sites, ranking second behind the U.S. in hosting malicious sites, according to the Financial Post. Senior Security Research Manager for cybersecurity firm Websense Patrik Runald said while the number of servers hosting malicious websites is going down [...]
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Hackers who broke into the computer system at Canada’s Finance Department and Treasury Board were not able to extract any confidential information on the forthcoming federal budget, according to Finance Minister James Flaherty. “There’s no suggestion that budget secrecy has been compromised in any way in my finance department,” the minister told reporters in Paris, [...]
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China today rejected reports suggesting it was behind a January cyber attack on the Canadian government that breached the Treasury Board and Finance Department and forced their websites offline, according to media reports. Canadian news outlet CBC reported yesterday the attacks have been traced to servers in China. It was unclear whether the web intruders [...]
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Canada faces escalating threats from cyber attacks by foreign spies, hackers and terrorists, and experts warn more must be done to strengthen the country’s cybersecurity and response systems, according to QMI Agency Canada’s Public Safety Minister Vic Toews said attacks on government computers have grown “quite substantial,” and attempts to tap into the federal network [...]
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A Catholic school board in Canada has taken action after discovering a young hacker accessed confidential records, including test scores. John Mackle, education director at the Peterborough Victoria Northumberland and Clarington Catholic District School Board, told QMI Agency the eight-grade student at St. Anne’s School in Peterborough used his laptop, downloaded software and the board’s [...]
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