The Bank of Canada elected March 10 to maintain its benchmark overnight lending rate at 0.25 per cent. It also committed to holding the rate there until inflation is consistently above two per cent, which the bank doesn’t expect until sometime in 2023. [node:read-more:link]
Economic security promotes happiness, and is beneficial for growth and social stability. This is a central finding of a new ILO report, which attempts for the first time to measure social and economic security of individuals and countries around the world. [node:read-more:link]
Personal information on potentially every person in Ecuador have been posted online after a massive national data breach. More than 20 million files, including those involving an estimated seven million minors, evidently were exposed. Ecuador’s official population is 16.5 million. [node:read-more:link]
The Angus Reid Institute says the vast majority of Canadians see money-laundering as a critial issue in the aftermath of an expert panel’s conclusion that the annual flow-through could be nearly $50 billion. The last federal budget proposed several countermeasures but many Canadians evidently feel the government is not being aggressive enough. [node:read-more:link]
The protection of critical infrastructure is a key national security issue. [node:read-more:link]
The Need for Partnership [node:read-more:link]
There's been a surge of cybercriminals and cybergangs who are going directly to your favorite e-commerce merchants, and profitability from online theft is growing. [node:read-more:link]
The Government wants to collect your individual banking transactions and sensitive personal identification information such as your bill payments, cash withdrawals and account balances, but the plan has been put on hold. [node:read-more:link]
Capital One Financial Corp. confirmed July 29 that personal data on some six million Canadian customers – including names, addresses, phone numbers and about one million social insurance numbers – were among those obtained by a hacker. The U.S. Justice Department says a former employee of a Seattle-based technology company has been arrested. Capital One, headquartered in McLean, Va., says it became aware of the hack July 19. [node:read-more:link]
Canada will focus much of its new anti-money laundering resources in British Columbia, where lax regulation and policing have led to the region becoming a global hub for the crime. [node:read-more:link]
An internationally recognized law enforcement and security expert, Coordinator of the 2002 Salt Lake Winter Olympics talks about securing transportation during the Vancouver Winter Games: threats, training, financing and cooperation. [node:read-more:link]
Over 11,000 participants attended the Dec. 2008 conference in Poznan, Poland. This year's focus, to advance international cooperation on a future climate change regime. [node:read-more:link]
When it comes to protecting their identities, consumers are being threatened and pressured by scam artists, but what's worse, sometimes by trusted authority groups as well. [node:read-more:link]
Examples of the multi-million-dollar problem of credit card fraud abound. Technological advances plus the jump in internet purchases, this type of fraud is becoming an increasing problem. [node:read-more:link]
Fighting terrorism financing is costly - and measuring success is a challenge. [node:read-more:link]
