The Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre produces regular bulletins to help Canadians to better protect themselves against fraud. Phishing scams are traditionally associated with misleading and deceptive emails, falsely claiming to be from a legitimate organization such as a financial institution, business or Government agency in an attempt to have the consumer surrender private and personal information. Scammers …
Cryptography done right has become important as the impacts of poor implementations are increasingly felt by journalists, whistleblowers and political activists around the world. Nik Unger and Dr. Ian Goldberg at the University of Waterloo have been working on improving cryptography for messaging. Cryptography is designed to provide a level of security for messages beyond …
The Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre produces regular bulletins to help Canadians to better protect themselves against fraud. A Romance Scam involves any individual with false romantic intentions toward a victim in order to gain their trust and affection for the purpose of obtaining the victim’s money or access to their bank accounts or credit cards. …
Software Defined Networks (SDN) are becoming more commonly used in the cloud. This virtualizes network functions as software instances in the cloud. Mohamad Aslan amd Ashraf Matrawy at Carelton University look at how this characteristics of SDN could affect the performance of Intrusion Detection Systems(IDS) on SDN. Network controllers collect information from other controllers and …
Cyber New Brunswick will be hosting a two day event at the Fredricton Convention Centre on the 15th and 16th of May 2018 on the Development of Cybersecurity. It will feature presenters from across the globe speaking on the development of the cybersecurity workforce in Australia, Paris, the Netherlands and North America. Get …
The Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity, an innovative hub for research, training and industry collaboration, has opened at the University of New Brunswick with more than $4.5 million in funding and the establishment of a research partnership with a global technology firm. The institute was made possible with $2.27 million in funding from the Atlantic Canada …
The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) is opening a cyber security lab and investing $1.78 million into research at the University of Waterloo to develop advanced cybersecurity and privacy tools. The funding will support research in the following areas; Data-driven software defined security, led by Raouf Boutaba, will focus on detecting and mitigating security threats …
The Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre produces regular bulletins to help Canadians to better protect themselves against fraud. This bulletin was prepared to provide awareness on Card-Not-Present (CNP) Fraud, which continues to target Canadian businesses. It depicts the trends and patterns associated to the fraud, as well as warning signs to prevent victimization. Overview CNP Fraud …
Cyber Security of Industrial Control Systems Eric Luiijf and Bert Jan te Paske Our society depends on the undisturbed functioning of (critical) infrastructures and their services. Critical infrastructures, and in many other organisations, rely on the correct and undisturbed functioning of Industrial Control Systems (ICS). A failure of ICS may result in a risk to …