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Auditor: Canada ‘slow’ on cyber security

Canada “has been slow” to set up firewalls to protect against cyber threats to critical infrastructure, leaving the nation vulnerable to crippling attacks, the auditor general warned Tuesday. In a report, Auditor General Michael Ferguson said the government has made only “limited progress” over the past decade to safeguard electrical…

Obama warns of cyber threats to the U.S.

President Barack Obama warned of cyber threats to critical US infrastructure and called on Congress to take action in an op-ed published Friday in the Wall Street Journal. “The cyber threat to our nation is one of the most serious economic and national security challenges we face,” Obama wrote. “Foreign…