Twitter makes the news once again. Another reminder about the vulnerabilities of cloud services and why it is so critically important that businesses maintain sound IT security practices. Late in January, Twitter suffered down time causing users of the popular …
Category Archives: Canada
IT Security Predictions in 2013 by Kaspersky’s Kevin Krempulec
Kevin Priddle frequently writes articles for the “IT in Canada” website. Kevin is a respected leader in the Canadian IT landscape. This week when we stumbled upon Kevin’s interview with Kaspersky Lab’s VP Canadian Sales, Kevin Krempulec, we paid attention …
US Homeland Security Issues IT Security Warning
US Homeland Security is issuing another IT security warning for business and home computer users on January 29, 2013 urging computer users to disable a common networking technology feature. Researchers have warned Homeland Security that hackers have the potential to …
Lack of proper IT security expels Montreal student
A Montreal computer science student was expelled recently for finding IT security holes in the school’s student portal, exposing the confidential records of over 250,000 students attending Dawson College. Hamed Al-Khabaz was working on creating a mobile application for students …
Headaches With Java Vulnerability Not Going Away
The headaches surrounding the most recent US Homeland Security warning surrounding Java 7 are not going away for Oracle and users of Java. This leaves computer users scratching their heads on what they should do today to protect their computers …
