/newsroom/taxonomy/term/11613/all en /newsroom/channels/news/expert-2020-national-cyber-threat-assessment-326374 <p>The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security has named China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea’s state-sponsored cyber activity as posing the “greatest strategic threats” to Canada’s critical infrastructure, intellectual property, and political events like elections.</p> Fri, 20 Nov 2020 20:20:23 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 249782 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/expert-cyber-security-cyber-attacks-and-data-breaches-303626 <p>Cyber security breaches at <a href="https://business.financialpost.com/technology/lifelabs-hack-may-have-compromised-personal-info-of-15-mln-canadians-2">LifeLabs</a>, <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/potential-scope-of-desjardins-data-breach-widens-to-include-another-2-million-credit-card-holders-1.5391021">Desjardins</a>, <a href="https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/capital-one-target-of-massive-data-breach-6-million-canadians-impacted-1.4528804">Capital One</a>, and <a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/6012007/transunion-data-compromised-canadians/">TransUnion</a> underscore t</p> Wed, 18 Dec 2019 15:56:16 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 191323 at /newsroom