Ingrid Betancourt is free

Ingrid Bétancourt, a 46 year old  Colombian politician, who also has french citizenship, was kidnapped by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in february 2002 while campaigning for the...

Service Canada Loses Canadians' data

Service Canada is about improving the delivery of government services. They are now offering a new service: facilitating identity theft. Service Canada recently sent a letter to 1500 individuals that where...

Belgian man arrested in Montreal pleads guilty

Vincent Raphael Duval a resident of the city of Liège (Belgium) was arrested in Montreal (Quebec, Canada) last saturday june 21st 2008. Duval pleaded guilty on friday june 27th to six accusations of sexual interference, sexual touching, kidnapping and three counts of...

Montreal Metro service stops for individual on tracks

Today, from about 12h02pm to 12h44pm, service was stopped and wagons evacuated at the Longueuil dock of the Berri-UQAM station. At least one individual decided to walk in the tunnel between the Berri and Jean-Drapeau...

Hacker gets 41 months Jail in USA

Following an investigation which began in December 2006, after marketing firm Newell Rubbermaid notified the London (England, UK) Metropolitan Police's Computer Crime Unit (CCU) about an intrusion on its network, Robert Matthew Bentley, a 21 year old male of...

Cyberslacking increases productivity: UK study says.

In a story related to last weeks' story Take away my Facebook at work and I Quit !, The UK study PopCap Break Report 2008 found that 57% of workers use their break to surf the web for personal uses. 71% said they surfed for personal reasons during business hours and 47%...

Take away my Facebook at work and I Quit !

A recent study by Vnunet and reported on All Facebook indicated that nearly a third of younger employees would consider quitting their job if Facebook was banned in the workplace. Nick O'Neill, All Facebook author, indicated that he previously worked at a job where they...

Facebook vs Privacy Commissionner

As was previously reported on NowPublic (see Facebook Being Investigated Over Violating Privacy Laws), Canada’s privacy commissioner Jennifer Stoddart is investigating allegations that the social networking site Facebook may be illegally collecting personal information...

OECD report on malicious software.

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) released a report titled Malicious Software (malware): a Security Threat to the Internet Economy last week on the international state of Internet security. This report, developed in collaboration with...

Via Rail train quarantined in Foleyet near Timmins Ontario

On friday May 9th a VIA RAIL train has been stopped at the end of Main street in Foleyet near Timmins (Ontario), about 350 kms north of Sudbury and about 800kms north west of Toronto (Ontario). Initially, it has been reported that one person has died and that the train...

Are you being hacked: Results of one week of home HoneyPot data.

 In early April, I installed a HoneyPot on my home network for a period of one week. My home network is connected to the Internet using the Cable Modem service provided by Videotron, a large ISP in Quebec. I was quite surprized to note that I had 12079 attempts to...

Canadian Security Establishment: a threat to Canadian values

A very interesting report on the French CBC network (Radio Canada) about the Canadian Security Establishment, also known as the CSE. As described in several sources that can be easily found on the Internet the CSE is the Canadian 'equivalent' of the US National Security...

Montreal region War drive march 2008

On Saturday, March 29th, 2008 from 9:00a.m. To 12:00 noon, students from the Champlain College's (Saint-Lambert) Wireless Networking program under the supervision of their professor, performed a wireless network...

Facebook and Attaque Campeau-Lepage - Guy A. Lepage's dog

Facebook has removed the page of popular TV host Guy A. Lepage. This page had been created by his son in the name of his dog. This page had been created with the goal to have more friends that the member of Parlement Denis Coderre. This makes little sense. Obviously, they...

24% of wireless networks in Montreal are unsecured

The city of Montreal is the metropolis of the Province of Quebec, in Canada. It is the principal economic and business center east of Toronto, metropolis of Canada.On Saturday, October 27th, 2007 from 9:00a.m. to 4:00p.m., students from the Wireless Networking program at...
 

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