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The Telegram reported that on January 31, the Government of Canada announced funding of $13.8 million from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency’s Atlantic Innovation Fund for research and development projects in Newfoundland and Labrador. The funding includes an estimated $5.3 million for C-CORE, which is an integrity and security of critical infrastructure project. This project […]

On January 14, Public Safety Canada’s Canadian Cyber Incident Response Centre (CCIRC) released advisory AV10-005 to bring attention to multiple critical vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader 9.2 and Acrobat 9.2 for Windows, Macintosh and UNIX, and Adobe Reader 8.1.7 and Acrobat 8.1.7 for Windows and Macintosh. Adobe categorizes this as a critical update. CCIRC recommends that […]

On January 13, Public Safety Canada’s Canadian Cyber Incident Response Centre (CCIRC) released advisory AV10-004 to bring attention to a critical patch update for Oracle products. The vendor “strongly recommends that customers apply CPU fixes as soon as possible” due to the threat posed by a successful attack. CCIRC recommends that administrators identify affected products, […]

Dark Reading and ScanSafe reported on a widespread SQL injection attack that hit 132,000 websites as of December 10, injecting malicious iFrames that install a backdoor Trojan. ScanSafe first noticed the attack on November 21 when it was at about 125,000 sites. The attack loads malware from 318x.com and then installs a rootkit-enabled version of […]

On November 27, the Government of Canada introduced in the House of Commons legislation to implement the Canada-U.S. Framework Agreement on Integrated Cross-Border Maritime Law Enforcement Operations, also known as the “Shiprider” program. The Keeping Canadians Safe (Protecting Borders) Act will strengthen cooperative bilateral policing efforts to stem the flow of cross-border criminal activity in […]

On November 27, Microsoft released security data showing that hostile attempts to crack passwords continue to focus on passwords with an average length of eight characters, with “password” and “123456″ being the most common. The data is part of a Microsoft project to monitor attacks that everyday users might encounter on a regular basis. Most […]

On December 2, Public Safety Canada’s Canadian Cyber Incident Response Centre (CCIRC) released advisory AV09-049 to bring attention to critical vulnerabilities in PDF distiller of some versions of the BlackBerry Attachment Service. Research In Motion (RIM) has issued updated software that resolves these new vulnerabilities in affected versions of the BlackBerry Enterprise Server and BlackBerry […]

On September 15, The Globe and Mail reported that officials with Transport Canada were reviewing gaps in the national marine security and studying strategies to improve national security. According to documents obtained by The Globe and Mail, the Transport Canada Marine Security Agency is considering greater exclusion zones and the installation of tracking devices to […]

On July 27, Minister of Public Safety Peter Van Loan announced on behalf of the federal government that federal officials will participate in a large scale security exercise known as National Level Exercise 09 (NLE 09), led by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security from July 27 through July 31, 2009. Mr. Van Loan indicated […]