US, Five Countries Form Wideband SATCOM Partnership

The U.S. and five countries are forming a partnership to expand wideband global satellite communication capabilities, the U.S. Air Force announced Wednesday.

The Air Force said senior defense officials from Canada, Denmark, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand and the U.S. held a steering committee meeting.

The agreement calls on the partnership…

Booz Allen Study Finds US Environment Fosters Cyber Power

The U.S. and U.K. are leading the ranks for their ability to withstand cyber attacks, Booz Allen Hamilton reported Friday.

Booz Allen sponsored a study developed by the Economist Intelligence Unit, which assessed 19 of the world’s leading economies. The company reported the U.S., U.K., Australia, Germany and Canada are “leading the way into the digital…

Cyber-stalking Fan Sentenced to Jail for Harassing Teen Star

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 media.

Cholin was obsessed with the girl, who cannot be identified because a judge…

Cyber Crime Rises in Canada

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 in countries such as the U.S.,…

Minister: Cyber Attack on Canada Didn’t Compromise Budget Data

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, according to Reuters. “We’re concerned about it.”

Canadian news outlet…

China Denies Involvement in Cyber Attack against Canada

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…

Minister: Canada Faces ‘Significant’ Cyber Threat

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…

8th Grader Hacks into School’s Confidential Records

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 internal network to access a board file server containing provincewide…

Canadian Hacker ‘Sextorted’ Hundreds of Young Girls

A man in Canada used his hacking skills to break into young girls’ computers, pose as someone they knew, then convince them to undress in front of their webcams. Those who did not continue with his game were subjected to threats of having the videos posted online, according to Ottawa Citizen.

Daniel Lesiewicz, a 30-year-old Quebec resident, managed to terrorize hundreds of underage girls before police caught…

15-Year-Old Canadian Hacker Charged for Breaking into School Website

A London, Canada, region’s public school board will have to spend more than three weeks to fix a privacy breach created by a 15-year-old self-proclaimed hacker who exposed the passwords of 27,000 high-school students, Toronto Sun reports.

Police charged the teen with breaking into the Thames Valley District school board’s website Oct. 23. It was the largest security breach in the board’s history, according to Toronto Sun.

Within an…