Industry

Why insurers joined Facebook ad boycott

Canadian insurers are taking part in a month-long campaign to halt advertising on Facebook and its companies to send a message to the social media giant about its practices in allowing hateful content and misinformation to be spread on its sites. The Stop Hate For Profit campaign called on advertisers to stop advertising on the […]

By Adam Malik | July 13, 2020

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Why hackers are zeroing in on your manufacturing clients

Online hackers are targeting manufacturers because they’re between a rock and a hard place: Pay up or see operations grind to a halt. All sectors are susceptible to data breaches, ransomware attacks and phishing, but criminals are narrowing their focus on who is most vulnerable, explained Katherine Keefe, Philadelphia-based head of Beazley Breach Response. “Who […]

By Adam Malik | July 10, 2020

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More than half of Canadians have experienced a cyber crime: new policy group

TORONTO – A new policy group estimates more than half of all Canadians know they’ve been a victim or target of a cyber crime, such as a leak of personal information, an account hack or installation of malware. The report from the Cybersecure Policy Exchange at Ryerson University found 57 per cent of participants in […]

By Greg Meckbach | July 10, 2020

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Flash storm hits same areas of Toronto as in 2013 Cat event. Was the damage the same?

Toronto is drying out from another sudden thunderstorm, but claims professionals may have dodged an even bigger workload thanks to the storm quickly moving out. “We’ve seen worse,” Glenn McGillivray, managing director at the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction (ICLR), told Canadian Underwriter, while noting the Wednesday storm happened on the seventh anniversary to the […]

By Adam Malik | July 9, 2020

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