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In particular, the cyber agency is warning Canadian organizations to be on their guard given reports of distributed denial of service attacks from Russian-linked actors.

Councillors debated issues including tree planting, the Humane Society of London & Middlesex and snow removal along sidewalks in a seven-hour meeting Thursday.

Google is laying off 12,000 workers, becoming the latest tech company to trim staff after rapid expansions during the COVID-19 pandemic have worn off.

The provincial Crown corporation says in a brief statement on Wednesday that its website and mobile app remain unavailable.

The provincial Crown corporation had said Wednesday that it was investigating a cybersecurity incident that knocked out its website and mobile app -- both are now operating again.

'They're increasing across western democracies,' Finlay says. 'This is a serious problem, a serious challenge, that is becoming increasingly severe.'

The report says ransomware attacks, in which digital files are held hostage until a fee is paid, are almost certainly the most disruptive form of cybercrime facing Canadians.

Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino said the bill introduced last year will ensure Canada has the defences needed to address the many online threats to national security.

CMC Electronics, who has worked with the Canadian Armed Forces for years, recently notified DND of a “cyber breach related incident” reportedly from sophisticated ransomware group.

Other reports being released Tuesday will focus on emergency management in First Nations communities and Arctic waters surveillance.

Provincial privacy watchdogs in Quebec and Alberta say they have received data breach reports from Sobeys, which has been dealing with "IT system" issues for much of the past week.

Spam texting is on the rise and as technology gets more sophisticated they're expected to increase in frequency, experts say.

Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children says it's responding to a cybersecurity incident affecting some of its phone lines, web pages and clinical systems.

Security and government sources describe the multi-day network disruption at Canada’s foreign affairs department as a “hack” as Ottawa stands by Ukraine.

The personal information of roughly 40,000 individuals was compromised during a privacy breach of the Saskatchewan Liquor and Gaming Authority during December 2021.

A person, claiming responsibility for the hack, told the New York Times that he had sent a text message to an Uber employee claiming to be a corporate IT person.

A SkipTheDishes customer in Calgary is questioning how her personal and financial information was used to place three orders in Montreal.

The Canadian technology company said revenue from the cybersecurity business would remain flat in the first half of 2023, but grow in the latter half of the year.

In a statement, the city wrote the attack has affected several of the administration's servers which lead to a computer outage.   

Canadians using services from any one of nine Internet titans may have had their personal information scrutinized by the U.S. National Security Agency for years.

According to both counties, it received notification from software developer ESO about a cybersecurity incident on their software which captures patient data.