Tag: canada
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Montreal will host VB2018
Last week, at the end of the very successful 27th Virus Bulletin conference, we announced the location for VB2018, the 28th Virus Bulletin conference, which will take place 3 to 5 October at the Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth hotel in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Montreal, which also hosted VB2006 , is the largest city in the…
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Montreal will host VB2018
Last week, at the end of the very successful 27th Virus Bulletin conference, we announced the location for VB2018, the 28th Virus Bulletin conference, which will take place 3 to 5 October at the Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth hotel in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Montreal, which also hosted VB2006 , is the largest city in the…
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Canadian firm fined $1.1m for breaching anti-spam law
First success story for long-awaited CASL. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), the agency responsible for enforcing Canada’s anti-spam law (CASL) has issued a $1.1m dollar fine to Compu-Finder , a Morin-Heights, Quebec-based firm, for violating the law. Anti-spam legislation plays an important if usually fairly invisible role in the fight against spam. It…
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Canada new hotbed for cybercriminal activity
Country’s IP addresses less likely to be scrutinized. Security firm Websense has reported a significant increase in cybercrime originating in Canada. Hitherto, Canada and malicious online activity were mainly linked through vast amounts of ‘Canadian pharmacy’ spam sent out to inboxes all over the world. However, malicious activity in the country – including the hosting…