Security
Breaches, scams and the people defending against them.
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Tim Hortons and PC Optimum apps share more of your data than you'd think. What to change
A CBC Marketplace test found popular Canadian apps sending device details, searches and location to outside companies. Here's what the apps say, and the settings that help.
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A deepfake network stole creators' faces to spread trade-war falsehoods to Canadians
McGill researchers found 293 TikTok and Instagram accounts with 22.1 million plays. TikTok's AI label caught 4% of them. Here's how it works and how to spot it.
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Microsoft 365 is still down, Nvidia's fall hits Canadian pensions, and a deepfake network
Day two of the Microsoft outage, what Huang's exit means for Canadian investors and Cohere, a McGill study on stolen faces, and HomeView launches.
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Xplore files for creditor protection, Canada signs a Paris AI pledge, and Sony kills Fairgames
Rural ISP Xplore enters CCAA, Ottawa joins an AI safety declaration, Montreal's Fairgames is cancelled, plus patches to install and Pixel Tag in Canada.
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N-able pulls its N-central remote management cloud offline after 33 unpatched bugs go public
A researcher published working exploits for the IT management tool. N-able took its hosted service down and told customers to take their own servers offline too.
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What Bill C-22 would actually require, and why Signal says it would rather leave Canada
The lawful access bill is now before the Senate. We read the text: what it asks of apps and carriers, what it says about encryption, and who says they'd pull out.
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Apple faces a B.C. class action, Ottawa's $25B fund gets a CEO, and GTA 6 preloads
A B.C. court lets a search-ad class action against Apple proceed, the Canada Strong Fund gets a CEO, Brampton's plant goes to Roshel, and an SSH bug to patch.
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Scammed into buying Apple gift cards? Apple's $1.25-million settlement may owe you money
If a scammer talked you into handing over iTunes, App Store or Apple Music gift card codes since 2016, you can claim from a Canadian settlement until Feb. 20, 2027. Here's how.
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Nvidia's board is investigating whether Jensen Huang was targeted by Chinese intelligence
Huang admitted to an affair, Nvidia's shares fell more than 4 per cent, and lawmakers want a briefing the day after earnings. Here's what's known, and what isn't.
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Instagram will now guess your teen's age in Canada too. Here's what changes
Meta is expanding its AI age estimation worldwide, moving teens who claim to be adults into Teen Accounts. What that means for families in Canada.
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Instant payments go live, Nvidia's board investigates Jensen Huang, and the budget's media money
Real-Time Rail launches, Nvidia opens a probe into its CEO, the budget's $1.5 billion for news and culture, a new online regulator, and an Apple gift card payout.
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Ottawa wants banks to cover account fraud. What the $0 liability promise means for you
Budget 2026 proposes capping your losses at $0 when someone gets into your bank account without permission. It isn't law yet, and 'gross negligence' will matter.
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A fake-carrier phone scam cost Edmontonians $20 million. Here's how it works
Callers posing as Rogers, Telus and Virgin get you to order a real phone, then trick you into shipping it to them. Police in Edmonton and Thunder Bay are warning about it.
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Budget day, AMD's $2.9-billion Taalas price tag, and a $20-million phone scam in Edmonton
The federal budget lands at 4 p.m., AMD prices its Toronto chip deal, Gemini starts shopping for Canadians, Unifor targets Amazon, and Edmonton police bust a phone scam.
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Shopify misses, Hydro-Québec warns of a power shortfall, and how Binance got robbed
Shopify's first revenue miss in four years, Hydro-Québec sees a deficit from 2029, a First Nation takes on Wonder Valley, and Binance explains its $6.3-billion hack.
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A budget 'about entrepreneurs,' big banks block AI agents, and Apple's record quarter
Champagne previews Thursday's budget, four big banks shut out personal AI agents, Apple posts a record September quarter, and Microsoft trips on Western Canada's clocks.
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Canada joins Europe's supercomputers, Carney on Starlink, and the FBI names Binance's hackers
Canada gets access to Europe's supercomputers, Carney warns about relying on Starlink, the FBI blames North Korea for the Binance theft, and smart clocks miss the time change.
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Hackers take about $6.3 billion USD from Binance in the biggest crypto theft yet
Binance says a compromised engineer's laptop let attackers drain about $8.8 billion CAD. It promises to cover losses. Binance left Canada in 2023.
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Got a call from 'IT' about your password? Canada's cyber agency says hang up
Scammers posing as internal help desks are calling Canadian staff, mostly at law and finance firms, to steal logins and MFA codes. Here's how the scam works and how to stop it.
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Apple's $3,999 touchscreen Mac, Ottawa's telecom roadmap, and a Canadian spacewalk
Canadian prices for Apple's touchscreen MacBook Pro, Ottawa's plan for cheaper phone and internet, a phishing warning, Wealthsimple's raise and a spacewalk.
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Canada's cyber agency warns AI agents are speeding up hacks to hours
The Cyber Centre says one group used an AI agent framework to go from picking a target to cloud admin access in under three hours. Its advice for organizations is basic, and urgent.
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Apple's touchscreen Mac day, Bell sells half its towers, and a warning about AI-powered hacks
Apple's event is today at 1 p.m. ET, Bell raises $2.45 billion from its towers, the Cyber Centre flags AI-run attacks, and Ottawa probes the Crime Stoppers breach.
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Cohere says an Alibaba AI model tried to send data to Beijing during a security test
Toronto's Cohere caught Qwen3.8-Flash-Next attempting an unrequested upload to an Alibaba Cloud bucket. It's rare, the intent is unclear, and Cohere wants governments to act.
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Anthropic files to go public, Cohere catches a Chinese model phoning home, and Microsoft offers buyouts
Anthropic's IPO filing has a Canadian angle, Cohere flags an Alibaba model, Microsoft offers buyouts in Canada, and AirPods become hearing aids in five provinces.
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Canada's launch problem, Amazon's union risk scores, and a $140-million Coinkite lawsuit
SpaceX winds down Falcon 9 bookings, Amazon scored B.C. warehouses for union risk, Coinkite is sued, iFixit opens the iPhone Duo, and clocks change Nov. 1.
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Sony's PlayStation problem: discs, jailbreaks and a trust gap
Profits are up, but a month of hacks, firmware lockouts, account takeovers and the end of discs has PlayStation fans asking what they actually own. Here's what's going on, and what it means in Canada.
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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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BioWare closes, PHP flaws take government sites offline, and telecom complaints jump 79%
EA shuts BioWare, a PHP security scare, a record year for CCTS complaints, Rogers' new card fee, the Crime Stoppers leak and Hive's raise.
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Critical PHP flaws take some federal government websites offline
Ottawa pulled sites as a precaution after two severe bugs in PHP, the language behind about 70% of the web. Here's what happened and what to do.
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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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Spyware hidden in ads, Cohere buys a security startup, and a spy agency data centre
Citizen Lab's AdFection findings, Cohere's deal for Aisle, CSE's planned data centre, a holiday scam warning and VGLX.
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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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Banks and carriers start sharing fraud data, Ottawa adds $500M for AI, and Eastlink upgrades
The new Cross-Sector Anti-Fraud Exchange, a $500-million AI top-up, Eastlink's 5G core, Google-funded cyber clinics and Netflix layoffs.
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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.
