While identity-related offenses always existed, the proliferation of quick forms of online communication has facilitated their expansion. In Canada, the rate of fraud (including identity theft and identity fraud) continued to increase for seven years in a row, with a 12% increase between 2017 and 2018. Incidents of identity fraud and identity theft increased from …
We all have questions, but who are the people with the answers for Cybersecurity. In this series we sat down with academics and experts to ask them about how they got started, what they are researching now, their lessons for us and the future. In this video, Aleksander Essex, Associate professor of software engineering …
Online fraud poses a significant challenge to society, as millions of victims are affected by this offense every year. Statistics about the rate of online fraud offenses that occur each year is not accurate. However, Statistic Canada showed that fraud (including online fraud) has been on the rise in the last decade, going up to …
Online fraud can be defined as a “cyber-enabled” offense, which means that while this offense uses the Internet and other technologies to facilitate its perpetration, fraud is not exclusively dependent upon it. As such, this definition recognizes that fraud offenses can occur across both online and offline environments. Even though Internet has increased the reach …
Nowadays, Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) sharing is considered necessary to survive current and future cyberattacks by working proactively. Organizations may be compelled to have a threat intelligence program and share their information. As such, stakeholders may be held responsible in the future for not sharing known threats that might affect other organizations. The core idea …
Cybersecurity training allows organizations to raise awareness among employees about information security best practices. Employee training and awareness is a critical and neglected area in cybersecurity. Indeed, about 19% of Canadian businesses provided formal training to develop or upgrade their cybersecurity-related skills, and a little over half (51%) of them shared general cybersecurity practices through …
Mahreen Naisir, Fahan Mahmood and Vipul Malhortra from the University of Windsor presented their analysis of data from the Statistics Canada Cybercrime Survey at our 2019 Workshop in Ottawa. This was as part of a competition aiming to better align recent evidence and statistics with best practices for business. Participants thoroughly examined the data from …
More and more companies have been increasing the flexibility of their labor force. However, labor forces with different employee positions within the organization bring different stakes and level of commitment. This is particularly true with temporary employees who have little reason to be committed towards their organization. Complying with the security policies requires time and …
Security operations and secure development are critical requirements that receive significant personnel, resources, training and other kinds of attention. As best practices proliferate, there has been little empirical research as to which are most effective and why. In this talk, I will review recent empirical studies that examine in depth the utility of threat modeling, …
Online romance scams are the most common and lucrative scam in Canada. Most of these scams involve criminals creating fake online profiles on dating sites and social networking sites to draw individuals into relationships to trick them out of money. Seven hundred sixty victims in Canada reported losses of more than $22.5 million to the …