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Across the country, Canadians are moving out of cities in droves to stretch their legs and call a larger plot of land home. For those embracing the work-from-home lifestyle, they no longer need to live near metro-area offices in expensive shoebox apartments and condos. According to Statistics Canada, 50,000 people moved out of Toronto and nearly 25,000 people migrated from Montréal to suburban areas from July 2019 to July 2020.  The increased demand for suburban housing is making the Canadian real estate market…

As Ransomware continues to spread and target organizations around the world, it is critical to leverage threat intelligence data. And not just any threat intelligence but actionable intelligence from MVISION Insights. Fortunately, there are several steps you can take to proactively increase your Endpoint Security to help minimize damage from the next Darkside, WannaCry, Ryuk, or REvil Which Ransomware campaigns and threat profiles are most likely going to hit you? MVISION Insights provides near real…

Data protection and lack of budgets and resources continue to present the biggest challenges as cyberattacks increase, according to a new Kaseya report. Image: Yuichiro Chino/Moment/Getty Images The top three priorities for tech professionals are improvement of security, cloud migration and automation to increase IT productivity, according to Kaseya’s newly released 2021 IT Operations Report. The report surveyed nearly 1,000 IT professionals worldwide between April and May 2021 about their top priorities and challenges. The…

The number of spam calls, the number of people losing money to them and the total amount of money lost In the past year are all record setting. Image: Tero Vesalainen, Getty Images/iStockphoto A study of U.S. residents has found that one in three say they’ve fallen victim to a phone scam in the past year, and 19% say they’ve been duped more than once. Totaling 59.4 million people, the money lost in the past…

Normally used by organizations for penetration testing, Cobalt Strike is exploited by cybercriminals to launch attacks, says Proofpoint. Image: HelpSystems The same powerful tool used by organizations to enhance their security is being adopted by cybercriminals to help break through their security. Popular penetration testing program Cobalt Strike saw a 161% increase in malicious use from 2019 to 2020 and is considered a high-volume threat for 2021, according to a report released Tuesday by security…

These days, it’s not a matter if your password will be breached but when. Major websites experience massive data breaches at an alarming rate. Have I Been Pwned currently has records from 543 sites comprising 11.4 billion accounts. This includes well-known names like Wattpad, MySpace, and Facebook. This is an 84% increase in the number of sites and a 115% increase in the number of accounts from when I published the first version of this…