Gabriel Kojima

·           PayPal has acknowledged that its Vancouver-based online and mobile bill payment subsidiary, Tio Networks (TIO), suffered a data breach. The attack potentially exposed personal information of 1.6 million of its customer base, which covers Canada and the U.S. ·           The announcement comes after PayPal suspended operations of Tio Networks on Nov. 10 “to protect customer data as part of an ongoing investigation of security vulnerabilities.” The examination revealed that vulnerabilities may have already been taken advantage of, with user information potentially compromised ·           A review of TIO's network had discovered customers' personally identifiable information may have been compromised. A PayPal spokesman said that information possibly included customer names, addresses, Social Security numbers and login credentials. The breac...

In 2014, Yahoo announced that it had suffered a massive data breach in which 500 million user accounts containing emails and passwords were stolen.  The company only got to know about the breach in September 2016, and labeled it as work of a ‘state-sponsored actor.’ On Tuesday  28th, Karim Baratov, a Canadian citizen, appeared in a San Francisco federal court and  pleaded guilty to hacking and claimed the whole feat was carried out with the assistance of people representing The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB).   Baratov claimed upon stealing half-billion user accounts he sent their passwords to Dmitry Aleksandrovich Dokuchaev, an alleged FSB officer who is already on FBI’s (Federal Bureau of Investigation) wanted list in connection with compromising at least 500 million Yahoo accounts. Other than Dokuchaev, Alexsey Belan and Igor Anatolyevich Sushchin (also Russian citizens) are also wanted by the FBI in connection with Yahoo breach....

Canadians are leading more and more digitally connected lives, and that's having both positive and negative implications on our well-being, a new Statistics Canada survey suggests.  The data agency said in a report  Tuesday  that more and more Canadians are accessing the internet on a regular basis, with 91 per cent of Canadians over the age of 15 using the internet at least a couple of times every month last year.  That's up from 86 per cent three years earlier 2013, and the prevalence of the internet in people's lives gets higher depending on how young you are. The percentage for those between the ages of 15 to 44 was over 90 per cent last year, but it was similarly high in 2013 too.  Among 65- to 74-year-olds, however, internet penetration has shot up in the past three years, from 65 per cent to 81.  For those over 75, usage jumped from 35 per cent to 50 per cent.  People offered many ways in which technology has improved their lives, with...