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Experts urge government to set cyber-security standards for private sector
OTTAWA — Governments should move to now to secure private networks in the name of national security — possibly even forcing standards upon the industry, two top experts in cyber-security said Thursday....
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Tories prepared to spend $200,000 for better cyber intelligence
OTTAWA — The federal government is set to spend up to $200,000 a year for an outside company to track all cyber attacks in Canada and rank how bad the attacks are relative to those in the rest of the...
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Government could be handcuffed during cyber attack affecting private sector
OTTAWA — A targeted cyber attack on a private company or organization controlling a piece of Canada’s critical infrastructure could leave the federal government on the sidelines, able to offer help but...
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Tories finalize cyber security plan
OTTAWA — A crucial — and missing — piece in the government’s strategy to keep its systems and information safe from cyber-attacks has been circulated to federal departments and will be released by...
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How to properly tweet a government funding announcement
OTTAWA — Are you tweeting from a government account? If so, here’s one way to make your tweets shorter: No dollar figures, even when funding announcements are made. The communications staff at Public...
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Tories release cyber-security action plan
OTTAWA — A policy gap in the federal government’s cyber-security efforts was filled Thursday with the release of an action plan the auditor general said was badly needed. The action plan lays out who...
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Telvent client alerted feds to hack at energy company, documents suggest
OTTAWA — A Canadian energy technology company, whose systems help run pipelines around North America, acted “in an extremely responsible manner” after it was hacked over the summer, even though it...
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Agriculture Canada has taken ‘interim steps’ to meet government data security...
OTTAWA — The department that had the third-highest number of people affected by data breaches over the last decade says it has taken “interim solutions” to protect information, five months after top...
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Few businesses appear ready to defend themselves from cybercrime, report finds
OTTAWA — Few companies may be ready to handle an attack from criminals lurking in cyberspace, and fewer know about the government’s three-year-old cyber-security efforts, according to a national study....
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Treasury Board to end pencil-pushing with ‘secret network’ for classified...
OTTAWA — Just over two years after hackers broke into Treasury Board servers — showing how classified information wasn’t properly protected — a new “secret network” is being developed inside the...
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Canada’s cyberspace top gun talks military strategy
OTTAWA — In a secret corner of the military’s national headquarters in Ottawa is the office of Lt.-Col. Francis Castonguay. He has a crucial role — heading the task force struck three years ago to...
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Live Chat: Age of WikiLeaks
It was one of the most-talked-about films at the Toronto International Film Festival and now The Fifth Estate, the blockbuster movie about the controversial Julian Assange and the WikiLeaks saga is...
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Trade secrets increasingly under attack from hackers, Foreign Affairs warns
OTTAWA — Foreign affairs’ networks face daily cyber attacks, with the “range and severity” increasing, raising the risk that secret information about trade negotiations could fall into the wrong hands,...
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Commons asked to review encryption following report NSA has back-door access
OTTAWA — House of Commons security is being asked to review its continued use of a private encryption device amid media reports that the company that makes it took money from the National Security...
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Federal department sought to ban USB drives to curb risk of privacy breaches
OTTAWA — Fearing it may lose sensitive information on First Nations peoples, the Department of Aboriginal Affairs decided earlier this year to ban the use of USB keys to transport data — then realized...
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Government departments consider banning portable data devices in wake of...
OTTAWA — A USB key handed out to an employee in the federal department tasked with helping Canadian companies compete for domestic and foreign security contracts vanished early in 2013. A week-long...
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Obama unveils reforms to U.S. cyber spying, but do they go far enough?
WASHINGTON – U.S. President Barack Obama announced Friday a series of what he called “significant and substantial reforms” to the government cyber surveillance programs, both in the United States and...
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Federal departments cite cyber-attacks among biggest risks
OTTAWA — Three years after hackers were found snooping around Treasury Board systems, a successful cyber-attack remains the biggest risk facing the department, according to a new report to Parliament....
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Canada’s military squeezed out of cyber-defence, emails warn
OTTAWA — Military advisers working on the cyber-security file warned a year ago that the Canadian Forces were on the verge of being pushed entirely out of the realm of cyber-defence, according to...
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Live Chat: Talk to security experts about Heartbleed
Have you changed all your online passwords? Should you? And even if you do, are you still safe? The Heartbleed bug has wreaked havoc, exposing personal data and creating panic. But how much of that...
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Report highlights problems of digital illiteracy in Canada
Senior government and private-sector officials need to smarten up about cyber threats because they often don’t know what’s lurking out there until it’s too late, according to a new report. The average...
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Vic Toews: The continuing terrorist threat
Public Safety Minister Vic Toews opened a major conference on security with a keynote speech in Ottawa earlier this morning. A couple quick observations: * Toews goes all-in as he identifies the links...
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Vulnerabilities in Canadian IT systems are nothing to joke about
OTTAWA — When a federal cyber-security expert gave his colleagues a rundown of the hacktivist collective Anonymous, his coworkers were impressed with his expertise — so impressed they jokingly became...
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When it comes to business, is China different? Experts say yes
OTTAWA — Yes, China should be treated differently. That’s the consensus view of security experts examining the dealings of both Chinese telecommunications technology company Huawei, which has been...
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Researcher calls on Ottawa to legalize ‘ethical hacking’
OTTAWA — The federal government should legalize some computer hacking activities, including allowing researchers to sleuth through networks and personal computers in order to track down the source of a...
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Canada should heed warnings of ‘cyber Pearl Harbor,’ security experts say
OTTAWA — The escalating threat of cyber attacks requires a rethink in the government’s security priorities, experts and opposition critics said Friday in the wake of a stark warning from the American...
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Federal government’s renewed investment in cyber-security not enough, critics...
OTTAWA — The federal government poured more money Wednesday into it cyber-security strategy, but some experts said the Conservatives don’t have a good handle on how exactly to keep digital...
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House of Commons worker charged with hacking Quebec government website
OTTAWA — A 28-year-old man faces computer crime charges for allegedly hacking the Quebec government’s website in April while he was on contract for both the RCMP and the House of Commons. According to...
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Auditor general’s report to highlight reviews of spending and cyber-security
OTTAWA — Canadians will learn Tuesday just how well the federal government fares in doling out almost $30 billion in grants and contributions each year, and how well the Harper government protects...
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Canada still vulnerable to cyber-attacks, says auditor general
OTTAWA — The federal government’s inability to protect its own networks and critical infrastructure from cyber-threats was laid bare Tuesday, after Canada’s auditor general pointed to holes in the...
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Auditor General struggles to determine if cyber-security dollars had desired...
OTTAWA—Auditors were unable to determine whether hundreds of millions of dollars in spending on cyber-security had its intended effect because of a lack of details from departments on how the cash was...
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Cyber-security centre staffing numbers jump
OTTAWA — The federal agency charged with monitoring and assessing threats to IT infrastructure in Canada will get a 300 per cent bump in bodies now that it is scheduled to expand its business hours....
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‘Improved capabilities’ needed to combat cyber-threats to national security,...
OTTAWA — Terrorists are ready to target Canadian IT networks with Internet-based attacks, the RCMP warned Thursday, adding the force needed to better its ability to combat this emerging threat. “One...
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Tories should fund private sector IT security in name of national security,...
OTTAWA — The federal government should consider subsidizing IT security for businesses across the country in the name of national security, suggests a research paper from Canada’s spy agency. The paper...
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Protecting the Internet — from an office in Montreal
They work all day long, writing code, sometimes breaking out a guitar to strum through a tough problem. The room is well-lit and when they start talking, the technical jargon they speak becomes...
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Tories have no plans to legalize online activism, documents suggest
OTTAWA — Legalizing certain forms of online protests is not on the government’s agenda — a move that could legitimize online actions currently considered illegal hacking — despite commissioning a...
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Private sector pulled in to help government build its IT knowledge
OTTAWA — In an effort to attract the best technological minds to the federal public service, the government has been running competitions involving private and public sector information officers vying...
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Cyber threats could overwhelm Canada within two years: CSIS
OTTAWA – The head of Canada’s intelligence agency warns that the country could be overwhelmed within two years by exponential growth in counter intelligence and cyber attacks. “If cyber espionage...
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Canada hit by hackers believed backed by secretive Chinese government unit
Canada is among the countries that has been targeted by a sophisticated hacking group believed to be backed by a secretive unit of the Chinese government, according to a report released Tuesday by an...
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