[ad_1] Botnets are fascinating to me. Who creates them? What are they for? And why doesn’t someone delete them? The answers are probably less interesting than I hope, but in the meantime I like to cheer when large populations of bots are exposed. That’s what security outfit F-Secure’s Andy Patel did this week after having…
[ad_1] Alex Shan says he sometimes thinks of Jolera Inc. as the largest Canadian IT solutions provider nobody’s ever heard of. The company’s CEO may be partially right. The Toronto-based company has carved out a niche for itself as a white label IT service provider specializing in business-to-business partnerships with other IT providers and hardware…
[ad_1] As hackers find more ways to compromise computers — from phishing to malicious web pages to taking advantage of user carelessness — and cyber-criminals go from pranksters or individual hackers to well-oiled commercial organizations that may even be funded by nation-states, security vendors are developing increasingly sophisticated technologies to help their customers fight back.…
[ad_1] Many companies are vulnerable to data security breaches without realizing it, so a reformed Canadian hacker wants to raise awareness about the issue and he’s partnering with HP Canada on a new documentary to do it. Called Rivolta, the upcoming documentary tells the story of Michael Calce — also known as “Mafiaboy” — who…