Technology News for IT Professionals in Canada

EDITOR'S TOP TECH NEWS

Russian-based threat group targets Microsoft 365, says Mandiant

Howard Solomon - August 19, 2022

CTM Insights set to license deepfake image detection advances to Allure Security

Paul Barker - August 19, 2022

Critical SAP vulnerability patched months ago now on US exploited bug list

Howard Solomon - August 19, 2022

Canadian non-profit gets funding to raise awareness of quantum computing threat

Howard Solomon - August 17, 2022

Latest News

Communications & Telecom

Rogers provides more information to CRTC inquiry on July 8 outage

Tom Li - 1 hour ago

Rogers has updated its reply to the inquiries made by the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) with additional information on what caused its network...

Canadian company wins CapitaLand Sustainability X Challenge 2022 High Impact Award

Samira Balsara - 2 hours ago

Honeycomb’s Liz Fong Jones speaks with Blameless about technical debt

Ashee Pamma - 3 hours ago

Google updates its search engine to demote clickbait

Tom Li - 6 hours ago

Carbon neutral data centre market revenue set to soar: BIS

Paul Barker - 6 hours ago

Hashtag Trending Aug. 19 – TikTok is “high risk”; Meta to ban political ads ahead of U.S. election; U.S. streaming tops cable TV viewing

Tom Li - 13 hours ago

Data centre power demands halt housing development in three U.K. boroughs

Paul Barker - 1 day ago

Security

Not as protected as we think we are: This Week In Ransomware as of Monday, August 15, 2022

Jim Love - 4 days ago

Are the things we think protect us from ransomware working as well as we might think? Some stories from this week make it clear...

Oracle’s Mebs Rehemtulla dies suddenly

Lynn Greiner - 4 days ago

Employee and student personal data accessed in Waterloo school board breach

Paul Barker - 4 days ago

Spontivly announces multiple VC investments, plans to become an industry leader in community management

Ashee Pamma - 4 days ago

Rogers, Shaw, and Quebecor announce definitive agreement for sale of Freedom Mobile

Renaud Larue-Langlois - August 12, 2022

Visa partners with Metrolinx to bring Tap to Pay to transit riders in the GTA

Ashee Pamma - August 12, 2022

Montreal man alleged to be an operator behind the Golden Chickens malware

Howard Solomon - August 11, 2022

Best of the Web

Security

Apple releases Safari 15.6.1 to fix zero-day flaw exploited in the wild

Apple has released Safari 15.6.1 to fix a zero-day vulnerability that is tracked as CVE-2022-32893 and exploited in the wild by attackers.

Social Networks

One in ten Reddit users publish toxic posts

According to researchers, one in ten Reddit users publish toxic posts while a similar number publish toxic comments.

People

Facebook contractors lose their jobs after algorithm selects them ‘at random’

Accenture, a company that oversees teams of Facebook moderators and other contractors, told workers that their work for Facebook would “soon be taken away.”

Development

Tanzania install high-speed internet on Kilimanjaro

Tanzania has installed high-speed internet on the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest mountain, underpinning plans to improve connectivity in the world’s wildest areas.

Security

Bitdefender identifies 35 malicious apps on Google Play store

If you have downloaded any of these Android apps, delete them since they could be used to spread malware and run unauthorized ads.

Future of Work

25 fully virtual companies without physical headquarters

Remote.co has published a list of 25 virtual companies without a physical headquarters.

SENIOR CONTRIBUTORS

9 Must-Take Actions as Recession Fears Loom

Gartner -

Even as recession indicators sound the alarm, financial analysts and even central banks remain split on the likelihood of a recession. In July, Scotiabank...

Digital transformation systems and data issues (Article 2)

Yogi Schulz -

What systems and data issues can digital transformation resolve or reduce? This article describes multiple issues that digital transformation can attack. In the previous article,...

5G: improving network security end to end

Jason Falovo -

The roll-out of 5G across the country could be considered one of the most highly anticipated technology advancements in recent memory. While many are focused on the advantages for consumers, organizations are also poised to reap the benefits.

Your organization’s security revolves around one thing: your people

Perry Carpenter -

Data and IT systems security are often viewed as the responsibility of the CIO. In truth, data security is the domain of everybody in the organization. Not focusing on the human side of security can put everything at risk.

Digital transformation benefits (Article 1)

Yogi Schulz -

A series of articles created to enhance your understanding of digital transformation.

Drones pose new threats to data centre security

Jason Chiu -

A new threat has emerged in the form of unmanned drones, and a different type of perimeter is necessary to protect data centre operations.

Coffee Briefings

Coffee Briefing August 16, 2022 – Wagepoint acquires KinHR; Canadian startup joins Mastercard...

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...

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TRENDING THIS WEEK

Careers & Education

Microsoft and Technation launch program to help prepare students for a digital work world

Technation and Microsoft recently launched a Career-Ready internship program called Explore, which brought first and second-year college and university...

Careers & Education

Calgary well ahead of Toronto as place to be to start an IT career: Study

The word is out about Calgary and its expanding tech sector, not only domestically, but globally, results of a...

Privacy

RCMP still interested in facial recognition software

Despite criticism that current facial recognition software is biased against people of colour, the RCMP is still interested in...

Communications & Telecom

Cyber Security Today, Week in Review for Friday, August 19, 2022

This podcast includes a discussion on buggy security patches, companies collecting too much data and fake job offers

Cyber Security Today, Aug. 19, 2022 – Another huge DDoS attack, ransomware variants increase and a warning about vulnerable PLCs

This episode reports on a record denial of service attack, the number of ransomware variants discovered this year is up and a warning about vulnerable PLCs

Hashtag Trending Aug 18 – Physical car controls are still better; Airbnb anti-partying tool; AirTag solves another theft

Physical car knobs beat digital ones, Airbnb launches an anti-partying tool in North America, and AirTag data helps solve another theft case. That’s...

Hashtag Trending Aug 17 – Horizon Worlds hit France and Spain; FTC harassing Bezos?; Amazon freight facility walkout

Meta launches Horizon Worlds in two new countries, Amazon says the FTC is harassing its founder, and workers go on strike at...

Deeper Dive: Ready, Set, Go (Episode 5)

Following a brief refresher on classic scenario planning, hosts Jim Love, CIO of ITWC, and Doug Sparkes, a lecturer at the Conrad School of Entrepreneurship and Business, riff collegially on how to avoid functional fixedness while identifying and developing scenarios.

Improving the Patient Journey – Interview with Jennifer Quaglietta

Jennifer Quaglietta has led countless initiatives that have a positive impact on the health of Canadians. As Vice President, Performance Excellence and...

The symbol Forrester uses to describe CIO-CMO relations in 2015 says it all

The analyst firm publishes an infographic that suggest improvement in the partnership between IT and marketing, but there's one gaping hole

Artificial Intelligence

Innovative Calgary information technology startups

Calgary’s tech innovators and entrepreneurs are leading digital transformation across the province and the world. Calgary is growing alongside Alberta into a global tech hub.

Careers & Education

International Women’s Day: Five tech training courses that aim to break gender inequality in Canadian tech sector

women are still largely underrepresented in the tech industry. This slideshow details education and training resources to help women advance in the IT field.

Government & Public Sector