Cyberattack

Satellites vital to Canadian military operations are vulnerable to cyberattack or even a direct missile strike — just one example of why the country's defence policy must extend fully into the burgeoning space frontier, an internal Defence Department note warns.

More than one in five Canadian companies say they were hit by a cyberattack last year, with businesses spending $14 billion on cybersecurity as they confront greater risks in the digital world, according to a new Statistics Canada survey.

The federal Finance Department is facing a medium risk of a cyberattack that could deliver a significant blow to its ability to carry out some crucial government operations, says a newly released internal analysis.

The federal government committed hundreds of millions of dollars in its recent budget to help reinforce Canada's cyber defences — but if the effort fails to prevent a major attack, Ottawa can always turn to its little-known $102-billion emergency stash.

Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland planned to use a Friday, December 22, 2017, meeting in Ukraine to get more information on reports that a man arrested there on suspicion of spying for Russia sat in on a meeting in the Prime Minister's Office this fall.

Equifax Canada says approximately 100,000 Canadian consumers may have had their personal information compromised in the massive cyberattack on the credit data company made public earlier this month.

Canada's privacy watchdog launched an investigation into the massive Equifax Inc. data breach

The father of a Canadian man accused in a massive hack of Yahoo emails told an Ontario court he'd keep all electronic devices locked away and out of his son's reach if his child is released on bail.

Government takes preventative measures in closing CRA portal for filing taxes over the weekend.

The Canadian government is "simply not up to the overall challenge" of fending off cyberthreats on its own, warns a federally commissioned report.

Canadian and Australian officials have discovered that the site that attracted millions of users in search of discrete infidelity had inadequate security measures in place.