cyberspace

A new research report says federal cybersecurity legislation is so flawed it would allow authoritarian governments around the world to justify their own repressive laws.

A new academic analysis has identified at least 75 foreign digital operations of a malicious political or industrial nature directed at Canada since 2010 – from attempts to steal COVID-19-related research to the targeting of Uyghur human rights activists.

Canada is on high alert for state-sponsored Russian disinformation campaigns designed to confuse and deceive people, says Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino.

The expansion of cyberspace makes it easier for foreign adversaries to pilfer valuable secrets, says a senior official at Canada's spy service.

Hate speech, disinformation and online extremism can't be allowed to prevent people from enjoying the freedom that cyberspace offers, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Thursday, November 11, 2021, at an international discussion on the internet.

The federal government is looking beyond COVID-19 to prepare for the next large-scale calamity — be it another pandemic, a tsunami or cyberattack.

Canada will work with allies to strike back at foreign cyberattackers and "impose costs" that make them understand the price of their wrongdoing, advisers have told Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

For the first time, Canada has placed right-wing extremist groups on the national list of terrorist organizations.

Canada's military spies can collect and share information about Canadian citizens — including material gathered by chance — as long as it supports a legitimate investigation, says a newly disclosed federal directive.

Alberta's two main political leaders used the only election debate to drill in on trust, with Jason Kenney saying Rachel Notley can't run the economy and Notley saying Kenney's moral compass needs a major readjustment.

A former Canadian foreign minister monitoring the Ukraine election says Sunday's, March 31, 2019, ballot was free and fair but suffered from Russia blocking voters in areas of the country it controls.

Two weeks after Serhii Kniaziev's military career ended, the Iron Curtain fell, the Soviet Union crumbled and the young ex-soldier returned to Ukraine and quickly found his calling — the thin blue line of policing.

Creating a federal e-safety czar could help focus the uphill struggle to protect children from the rising threat of online sexual exploitation, frontline agencies have told the government.

Criminals are using the darker corners of the internet, hard-to-track digital currency and creative shipping techniques to sell illicit guns to Canadians, the RCMP warns.

In the often shadowy and dangerous domain of cyberspace, the federal government wants Canadians to have a trustworthy place to turn to help stay safe online.