Content Tagged ‘Canada’

Canadian resident sentenced to death for writing a computer program

January 24, 2012 - A Canadian resident has been sentenced to death in Iran for offending the faith, after his computer program was used without his knowledge to upload pornography. Read more

Anonymous threatens Mexican politicians and City of Toronto

November 14, 2011 - Anonymous are threatening to attack the City of Toronto if they evict the occupy protesters from St. James Park. They have also hacked political websites in Mexico during this weekend's election posting videos accusing officials of corruption. (continue reading...) Read more

Canada ponders mandatory data breach notification law

October 1, 2011 - A bill was introduced to the Canadian House of Commons this week seeking to establish a mandatory data breach notification law. How might this affect businesses with customers in Canada? Read more

Canada mulls warrantless internet info-gathering powers for police

August 17, 2011 - Yesterday, I wrote up my take on the recent Australian bomb-hoax story, in which a suspect was tracked from Sydney to Kentucky through a mixture of old-fashioned (continue reading...) Read more

Sony Ericsson acknowledges Canadian e-commerce site hacked

May 24, 2011 - Sony has been hacked for the fifth time in four days. This time a vulnerability was discovered in the Canadian e-commerce site for their mobile phone division, Sony (continue reading...) Read more

The great Canadian information heist

February 23, 2011 - Finding out that Canadian government networks were hacked, and that information was stolen is an embarrassment to all Canadians (me included!). This is a story we hear again and again. Evil hackers from across the ocean gained access to our (continue reading...) Read more

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