Security
Breaches, scams and the people defending against them.
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Ontario takes another run at digital ID, and promises it'll stay optional
Consultations start this year on a phone-based Photo Card first, with driver's licences and health cards to follow, plus a law protecting physical ID.
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1.5 million Crime Stoppers tips exposed online, including tipsters' names
A CBC investigation found 25 years of tips stolen from Crime Stoppers' software vendor. More than 850,000 include personal information.
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Canada's Cyber Centre warns AI is making holiday shopping scams harder to spot
New guidance flags fake storefronts, lookalike URLs and AI shopping assistants that can't tell a real seller from a fake one.
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Canada's signals intelligence agency plans a data centre worth up to $1.8 billion
A Defence Construction Canada notice points to a new Ottawa-area facility for the Communications Security Establishment.
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Cohere moves to buy cybersecurity startup Aisle and launch Cohere Cyber
The Toronto AI company signed a letter of intent for Aisle, founded by ex-Avast CEO Ondrej Vlcek, to sell security tools to governments and businesses.
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Citizen Lab finds spyware delivered through ads, with no click needed
U of T researchers say Candiru spyware infected Al Jazeera devices through targeted ads shown on nearly 200,000 sites and apps, including CBC.
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Canada's big carriers and banks start sharing fraud data
The new Cross-Sector Anti-Fraud Exchange links Bell, Rogers and Telus with six major banks to spot repeat scammers faster.
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Bell and Cohere build a Canadian AI model for hunting cyber threats
The domain-specific model, trained on Bell Cyber's data, goes inside Bell's security operations centre to speed up investigations.
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U.S. court says border agents can search your phone without suspicion
A Second Circuit ruling removes the reasonable-suspicion bar for device searches at the U.S. border. Here's what Canadian travellers should know.
