Coffee briefing Dec 27, 2022 – Reddit and Omnicom partnership; Cycling Team creates digital community; Plume reveals 2022 smart home trends; and more
Coffee Briefings are timely deliveries of the latest ITWC headlines, interviews, and podcasts. Today’s Coffee Briefing is delivered by IT World Canada’s editorial team! Missed last week’s Coffee Briefing? We’ve got you covered. What’s new this week Reddit and Omnicom Media Group announce enterprise partnership in Canada Source: Reddit Reddit has announced its first-ever enterprise partnership […]
Cyber Security Today, Year in Review for 2022
This is the Year in Review podcast for 2022. I’m Howard Solomon contributing reporter on cybersecurity for IT World Canada.com. With me are Terry Cutler, head of Cyology Labs in Montreal and David Shipley head of Beauceron Security in Fredericton, New Brunswick. (The following transcript has been edited for length and clarity. To hear […]
Ocean Supercluster launches initiative to increase Indigenous participation in ocean economy
Canada’s Ocean Supercluster (OSC) has announced an initiative meant to foster greater inclusion and participation of Indigenous organizations and communities in the country’s ocean economy. OSC, one of Canada’s five Global Innovation Clusters, is investing $230,000 in the first phase of the “Two-Eyed Seeing Initiative” to promote meaningful engagement of Indigenous communities. It is being […]
Cyber Security Today, Dec. 26, 2022 – Ransomware attacks are up and a huge number of phishing packages found in open-source repositories
Ransomware attacks are up and a huge number of phishing packages found in open-source repositories. Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Monday, December 26th, 2022. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com. Today is the Boxing Day holiday in Canada, when we get a day off to shop for holiday bargains. If you’re […]
Virbela releases enterprise metaverse 2023 predictions
Virbela, a platform that creates virtual worlds for remote work, learning, and events, has released its 2023 enterprise metaverse trends and predictions. The company broke down the trends into three categories: innovation and investment, employee experience and management, and security in the metaverse. Innovation and Investment Virbela predicts that next year, metaverse products will […]
LastPass hacker got customer information and their encrypted vault data
Business and personal users of the LassPass password management solution are being warned to take defensive action after the company acknowledged customer information and encrypted data they had stored in the service’s digital vault were copied by a hacker in a supply chain attack. “Users should beware of sophisticated phishing attacks aimed at stealing their […]
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) in action – use cases and results. Jesse Tutt from Alberta Health Services on Hashtag Trending, the Weekend Edition
It’s fashionable these days to be cynical about government. But we spend a lot of time researching and telling stories about government. Personally, I’ve found that our civic employees are incredibly creative and dedicated – and they do amazing things often with very little in the way of budget or resources. They face incredible and […]
Newly discovered Linux vulnerability rated 10 in severity
Linux administrators are being warned to address five new vulnerabilities, one of which is rated 10 on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) severity ranking. The vulnerabilities are listed by Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), a project that pays security researchers for finding vulnerabilities. The most serious of the five, designated ZDI-22-1690, allows remote […]
Cyber Security Today, Week in Review for Friday, December 23, 2022
Welcome to Cyber Security Today. This is the Week in Review edition for Friday, December 23rd, 2022. From Toronto, I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com. In a few minutes Terry Cutler of Cyology Labs will be here to talk about some of what happened in the past seven days. First, a […]
Meta to pay US$725 to U.S. Facebook users over Cambridge Analytica scandal
The fallout from the 2018 Cambridge Analytica scandal continues to follow Facebook and its parent, Meta Platforms. Reuters reports that Meta has agreed to pay US$725 million to resolve a U.S. class-action lawsuit accusing Facebook of allowing third parties, including British political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica, to access the personal information of as many as […]