An expert group has called on the federal government to protect residents from the potential perils of such tactics.

Tech giants Apple and Google are working on contact tracing coronavirus infections using cellphone data. The Saskatchewan Health Ministry says it is assessing similar programs.

The campaign is another indication of how online disinformation is being tested by countries well beyond Russia,

NSO Group is fighting three lawsuits that allege its spyware was used to monitor journalists, activists and a friend of Jamal Khashoggi in Canada.

Undercover operatives have targeted at least six people who have raised questions about spyware from NSO Group, an Israeli software firm.

The Toronto-based researchers who reported that Israeli software was used to spy on WJamal Khashoggi's inner circle are being targeted in turn by international undercover operatives.

University of Toronto's Citizen Lab say that Omar Abdulaziz's cellphone was infected with the spyware Pegasus, and that it was being monitored from Saudi Arabia.

It would be good news to learn that deadly freshwater sharks had been found and caught - it's better news that they never existed in the first place.

Researchers probing a journalist's hacked e-mails uncovered over 200 victims in 39 countries.

Researchers have identified a Canadian company at the centre of a small Arab nation's online censorship system - a finding that sits awkwardly with Ottawa officials' public support for digital freedoms.