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Both the FBI and the Democratic Party would have benefited from Evizone Communications Governance

LEARN MORE                     FREE TRIAL                          CONTACT EVIZONE It’s Election Day in America, and the polls numbers between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are closer than they ever should have been. On the day of the third presidential debate, FiveThirtyEight gave Clinton a staggering 87.3% chance of winning the election, a complete landslide. As of last night, […]

John Podesta’s emails were hacked in the most preventable way possible

LEARN MORE                     FREE TRIAL                          CONTACT EVIZONE You’ve received this email before. The layout of the message looks like it’s from your email provider or sometimes even from your bank, saying that someone has tried getting into your account and you need to change your password ASAP. A big button says it will lead you to […]

Don’t let cyber criminals extort you for your own data

LEARN MORE                     FREE TRIAL                          CONTACT EVIZONE Back in June, it was announced that the University of Calgary paid hackers $20,000 to regain access to its e-mail system. A type of malware called ‘ransomware’ cut off access to the University’s system and kept the data hostage until a payment was made. The hackers knew that the […]

Toasters are taking down multi-million dollar companies, highlighting the importance of cyber security

LEARN MORE                     FREE TRIAL                          CONTACT EVIZONE October is Cyber Security Awareness Month. You wouldn’t know that based on the slew of large scale hacks that have taken place this month, including the massive DDoS attack that took down PayPal, Twitter, Spotify, and others last week. The attack came not only from an army of compromised […]

Yahoo’s spying: a terrible corporate decision

LEARN MORE                     FREE TRIAL                          CONTACT EVIZONE In a damning article published by Reuters last week, it was revealed that Yahoo has been spying on its users, collecting their data “at the behest of the National Security Agency or FBI”. “Yahoo Inc last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers’ […]

Securities regulators get serious about cyber security

LEARN MORE                     FREE TRIAL                          CONTACT EVIZONE If there’s one place where you would expect cyber security to be taken seriously, it’s in an area of the economy where trillions of dollars are potentially at stake. Of course, expectations do not always translate to reality. But it was encouraging to see last week that the Canadian […]

Stingray devices are no match for military-grade encryption

LEARN MORE                     FREE TRIAL                          CONTACT EVIZONE Did you know the government can collect the data you store in your pocket with little to no effort? The tool they use is called a “Stingray”, a cellphone surveillance device that collects information indiscriminately if you’re in its vicinity. The Globe and Mail has investigated the practice extensively […]

The mistake people make when discussing cyber-security

LEARN MORE                     FREE TRIAL                          CONTACT EVIZONE Vice Media’s Motherboard website published a series of articles on hacking recently with titles like “The Motherboard Guide to Not Getting Hacked”, “Why The US Government Needs a Cyber National Guard”, and “We Asked Hackers To Predict The Future of Hacking”. While mostly informative, the authors did what almost everyone talking […]