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Cybersafety Sentinel June 2022 Week 1

ByClaudiu Popa June 3, 2022July 7, 2022

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While technology used in education is nothing new, cloud-based tools that collect, process and share student data represent the sad reality in today’s public education system. By default, these commercial systems cannot be trusted. Here are my 3 baseline conditions for #edtech to be trustworthy. Read more

Tim Hortons App Privacy

The Tim Hortons mobile ordering app violated the law by collecting vast amounts of location information from customers, an investigation by federal and provincial privacy watchdogs has found. Read more

Hackers Steal WhatsApp Accounts

There’s a trick that allows attackers to hijack a victim’s WhatsApp account and gain access to personal messages and contact list. The MMI code trickRahul Sasi, the founder and CEO of digital risk protection company CloudSEK, posted some details about the method saying that it is used to hack WhatsApp account. It takes just a few minutes for the attacker to take over the WhatsApp account of a victim. Read more

Keeping Children Safe

Unique characteristics of digital spaces include possible anonymity and profit-driven algorithms that keep kids hooked but not safe. Because the rise and influence of social media has paralleled increases in youth mental health problems, many have questioned whether screen time is to blame. Read more

The Threat of US Data Harvesting

To highlight the threat to civil liberties, Vice media recently paid a data broker $160 for one week’s worth of location data covering 600 Planned Parenthood clinics. This data enabled them to track where groups of people had come from and where they went afterwards. Read more

Cyberattack in Costa Rica

Economic losses dwarf the $15 million ransom the government refused to pay the hackers, and the chaos is only getting worse. Costa Rica belatedly declared a national emergency, after a crippling ransomware attack the month before by Conti, the Russia-aligned hacking group, which had identified gaps in the country’s public cybersecurity infrastructure. Read more

Phoenix Damages Breach

Treasury Board Secretariat didn’t ‘BCC’ recipients in mass email to 200-plus public servants. Hundreds of federal government employees had their privacy breached after the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat sent a mass email containing personal information to those claiming Phoenix pay damages with the department. Read more

eHealth Upgrades Not Enough

eHealth Saskatchewan, which runs the province’s health-care IT system, has been approved to spend up to $62.3 million on upgrades, but cybersecurity experts caution more needs to be done in the aftermath of the 2019 ransomware cyberattack that affected millions of files. Read more

Data Governance for Children

The UK ICO and the Irish DPC have pioneered good data governance for children, which is being emulated around the world. The UK ICO introduced the UK Age Appropriate Design Code in 2021, articulating how online services must interpret UK data protection law when processing children’s data. Read more

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Claudiu Popa

Claudiu Popa is a public speaker, cybersecurity expert and passionate defender of privacy rights who engages audiences through storytelling and weaponizes academic courses, radio, television, podcasts, social media and the written word to fight for the vulnerable in society and catalyze positive social change in Canada.

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