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Canada's IT Security Conference
MTCC, TORONTO
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What to Expect from SecTor 2021
It goes without saying that we’ll be following all provincial health guidelines including social distancing, mask use, vaccination requirements and capacity limits. Here’s what we can tell you about SecTor 2021 with a fair level…
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Going Hybrid
You may have seen the announcement that SecTor 2021 will be a hybrid event. What does this really mean? The virtual event we put on last year is a sure thing this year. And just…
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When Malware Developers Slip Up
[caption id="attachment_19032" align="aligncenter" width="1023"] Image courtesy Blogtrepreneur on Flickr[/caption] Cybersecurity researchers spend their lives finding security flaws in programs so that vendors can fix them, but bugs aren't exclusive to legitimate software. Malicious software authors…
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How to stop the open source security rot
[caption id="attachment_19012" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Image courtesy Wonder Woman 0731 (Flickr)[/caption] A lot of software depends on open source. Web apps, and plenty of enterprise applications, draw on libraries maintained by volunteers. Open source software helps…
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How To Make Encrypted Data More Secure
If the last few years' barrage of data breaches has taught us anything, it's that protecting information with strong encryption is mandatory for any good security team. But what kind of encryption should you use?…
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This Data Scientist Has A Grim Pandemic Prediction
At the end of September, Ontario premier Doug Ford was predicting a second COVID-19 wave. "We don't know how bad it will be," he said - but Stephan Jou had a pretty good idea. The…
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How A Personal Data Breach Changed This Privacy Engineer’s Career
2020 SecTor keynote speaker Dr Tracy Ann Kosa got into privacy for personal reasons: She suffered her own data breach. "I was working on my master's thesis at the University of Manitoba, and my hard…
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How a Self-Made Cybersecurity Expert Tracked Down a Rogue Admin
When Paula Januszkiewicz isn't chasing down intruders or examining technology evidence for legal cases, she's poring over the Windows source code, learning more about its inner workings. The founder of security consulting company CQURE is…
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Why We Don’t Learn From Our Cybersecurity Mistakes
No one will remember you for the mistakes you make. It's how you deal with them afterwards that defines you. The most mature people own and correct their slip-ups, learning from them to avoid future…
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This Bot Could Help Cyberstalking Victims Escape Their Abusers
[caption id="attachment_18433" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Photo courtesy Charles Deluvio (Unsplash)[/caption] All was well on the SecTor social medsia channel until we started seeing some strange tweets mentioning us in July. "we stopped in the colonnade ,…
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Researchers Reveal How Bias Undermines Your Cybersecurity
Companies face a constant cybersecurity challenge. The risks they face are many and varied, but there is only so much time and money to go around. Choosing which cybersecurity risks to address is a pressing…
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Can We Have A Non-COVID-19 Hacking Code?
[caption id="attachment_17896" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Covid 19, Corona Virus Pandemic İnfection[/caption] SARS-CoV2, the virus behind the COVID-19 pandemic, isn't the only pathogen that's been spreading around the world lately. It has spawned a corresponding slew of…
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If you see a vulnerability in over 60,000 open-source projects, here's how you engineer a mass-patching scheme to p… https://t.co/16YyXvuv14
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This dead man's switch service proposes that you encrypt vulnerability data and then start the clock ticking. When… https://t.co/b1cHdqkTS3
