The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit recently considered a case involving the search of a hotel room and the seizure of a cellular telephone as an incident to the arrest of a suspected narcotics distributor. The search was unreasonable because the area searched was not within ...
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The Alberta Court of Appeal has ordered a new trial for Kirandeep Toor who was convicted of drug smuggling by a Lethbridge jury and was serving a nine year sentence along with her twenty-two month old daughter who was born during her incarceration. In a split 2-1 ruling the court ...
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A multinational cyber operation coordinated by Europol has dismantled a malware network that infected millions of computers worldwide. It is the latest international investigation targeting ransomware and other malware droppers that are usually delivered by emails containing infected links or attachments. The sting has impacted the global dropper ecosystem on ...
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The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security has joined an international consortium of cybersecurity and law enforcement agencies in warning the public about the growing threat to civil society which is deemed high risk for state-sponsored cyber threats. The high risk community of individuals and organizations includes nonprofit, advocacy, cultural, faith-based, ...
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The tension was ratcheted up last week in the latest round of cyberwar with the unsealing of an indictment in the United States District Court, Southern District of New York, charging four Iranian nationals with carrying out a malicious cyber campaign targeting federal government agencies, Pentagon contractors handling classified information ...
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What is the result on appeal when trial counsel did not object to the judge's instructions to the jury? An opinion released today by the British Columbia Court of Appeal in a tragic manslaughter case highlights the broad rule that a failure to object by trial counsel is a non-controlling ...
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The British Columbia Court of Appeal has upheld the ruling of a trial judge excluding a critical pocket-dial recording from evidence at the trial of Samandeep Singh Gill that resulted in his acquittal for the murder of Manbir Singh Kajla. The recording of the alleged shooting was seized by the ...
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The Supreme Court of Canada has held that internet protocol addresses attract a reasonable expectation of privacy in a ruling that will have wider implications for the private sector including internet service providers, search engines and artificial intelligence generators. The concentration of personal data in the hands of private corporations ...
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A sprawling operation by an international consortium of law enforcement agencies has seized the infrastructure and website of the notorious LockBit ransomware group. Over the last five years the seemingly untouchable purveyor of ransomware-as-a-service rapidly grew into one of the most prolific hacking enterprises in the dark web ecosystem infiltrating ...
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The disruption of a botnet and the seizure of internet domains selling a remote access trojan have recently turned the cybersecurity focus on the detection of stealth methods deployed by state sponsored and financially motivated actors. Described as the defining threat of our generation a botnet known as Volt Typhoon ...
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