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Police are cracking down on catalytic converter thefts.

More than 1.3 million kits will be distributed to the general public across Saskatchewan starting the week of Oct. 18, through participating fire halls, local chambers of commerce, and Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) testing and assessment centres.

The French-language school division in Saskatchewan is giving rapid COVID-19 test kits it has purchased to unvaccinated staff members in its schools.

Saskatchewan's Health Minister says he assumes responsiblity for everything in the health care system and ever...

Western Sydney University has tapped Sydney-based cybersecurity providers Secolve, Emergence, Gridware and DCEncompass as partners for its Cybersecurity Aid Centre. The centre will provide training and support services for small businesses with Cyber Incident Response, including support during a data breach, ransomware or email business compromise. Secolve, Emergence, Gridware and DCEncompass will support the centre in setting up the internal structures with the university and helping with trai...

Cynch Security co-founder and CEO Susie Jones. Cybersecurity initiatives for small business were conspicuously absent from the government’s $1.2 billion digital strategy, unveiled yesterday. The suite of measures, announced ahead of the federal budget next week, pledged ‘over $50 million’ to improve cybersecurity in the government, as well as investment in data centres and telecommunications networks. But, despite funding designed to boost small business digitisation, none of the cyber sp...

Source: Unsplash/Jefferson Santos. A wave of government funding is on its way to help support small businesses — particularly those in regional Australia — upskill in cybersecurity and better protect themselves in an increasingly digital world. The federal government has announced the recipients of its Cyber Security Business Connect and Protect Program, with a total of $6.9 million in grant funding distributed between 14 organisations. It will fund projects helping small businesses identif...

Volunteers installed native plants in historic west Atlanta community.

A number of Australian channel partners have received Government grants to help small and medium-sized enterprises improve their cybersecurity capabilities. IT Connexion, Loyal IT Solutions, CyberCX, Real World Technology Solutions, First Focus IT and Concept Data each received grants ranging from $188,000 to $750,000. The grants are part of the Department of Industry’s Cyber Security Business Connect and Protect Program, which provided $6.9 million in funding to 14 organisations that would w...

Aussie tech companies clean up with $6.9M cyber security grant splash 14 organisations tasked with helping SMEs turn around cyber risks. Several Australian channel players have reaped new grants for cyber security training from the Department of Industry, Science and Technology.  IT service providers and managed security service providers will account for roughly 40 per cent of the department’s Cyber Security Business Connect and Protect Program, which is providing a total of $6.9 million to...