Canada’s Communications Security Establishment is urging COVID-19 researchers to protect data as “sophisticated threat actors” may look to steal “key research toward a vaccine,” The Globe and Mail reports. The CSE said, “These actors may attempt to gain intelligence on COVID-19 response efforts and ...

The Australian government walked back on a claim that the MyGov website crashed due to a cyberattack, News.com.au reports. Minister for Government Services Stuart Robert said the site was down due to a distributed-denial-of-service attack; however, MyGov had crashed due to an increase in traffic. Th...

The implementation date of Brazil's General Data Protection Law may be pushed back from August due to the COVID-19 pandemic, ZDNet reports. IAPP Brazilian Country Leader Dirceu Santa Rosa said the country could move forward with the 2020 date; however, it may need to do so without some of the bill's...

Personal information belonging to General Electric employees was obtained in a data breach at one of the company’s service providers, TechRadar reports. From approximately Feb. 3 to 14, an unauthorized party accessed a Canon Business Process Services employee email account containing documents with ...

Phishing scams and spam attacks are on the rise during the COVID-19 outbreak, CNBC reports. Thirty-six percent of executives on the CNBC Technology Executive Council said cyberthreats have increased as the majority of their employees work from home. “Businesses should anticipate that bad actors will...