A Montreal-area city was hit by ransomware over the weekend, according to a Quebec news service.

La Presse reported this morning that the city of Westmount mayor Christina Smith confirmed the attack. Westmount is a municipality of about 21,000 people within Montreal.

The Lockbit ransomware gang has claimed credit, saying it copied 14 TB of data and will release it in two weeks unless a ransom is paid. The city’s website hasn’t been affected by the attack.

LockBit’s claim shouldn’t be assumed to be accurate, cautioned Brett Callow, a British-Columbia-based threat analyst for Emsisoft – at least, not in relation to 14TB having been exfiltrated. “They’ve exaggerated in the past, and could be doing so again,” he said in an email.

According to La Presse, the attack was spotted Sunday morning by a city employee who noticed a problem with a computer.

La Press quotes Claude Vallières, the city’s head

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We already desired to buy interesting things. here you will see some best amazing tech products to buy for you or family.

There are interesting tech gadgets that will make you more comfortable in the rest of time. you can select best according to your needs.

We are still in the holiday season. There are many beautiful tech gadgets to give – but you need to realise which is precious from hand earned.

That is a general question to ask yourself to buy for someone: How do you select the year’s best products from an ocean of treasure. Luckily, It’s little easy – you can check out our choices below. Let’s see about this products.

Best 10 technology gadgets to buy in 2022?

(1) Binge Watcher – Roku Ultra

Roku Ultra is the best voice pro remote with rechargeable battery. this is best tech gadget for private listing, enjoying

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It is a connundrum executive teams of numerous organizations who have hit major road bumps in their analytics development journey must surely discuss among themselves or with others: Why do some rollouts fail miserably while others succeed?

The answer to the question, said Kimberly Nevala, strategic advisor and advisory business solution manager with SAS, can be crystalized in six key attributes that companies who make “good use of analytics” adopt and practice.

SAS executive Kimberly Nevala,  delivering the keynote speech yesterday at the Analytics Unleashed live and virtual event.

In a keynote speech yesterday at the second annual Analytics Unleashed event, organized by IT World Canada and sponsored by SAS, Informatica and shinydocs, Nevala detailed six attributes that organizations need to have to not only achieve success, but to adapt to changing times.

Attribute One: Those firms that succeed in using analytics and artificial intelligence (AI), she said,

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As a knowledge scientist, it’s essential that you’re an evangelist to your career. Despite the attention of the value of Big Data, it is still onerous for businesspeople to really understand the scope and power of data science and what it could possibly do for his or her group. There are several completely different causes for this: First, knowledge science continues to be a really new career and not practiced much in smaller firms, so it is hard for some individuals to grasp what it may well do if they haven’t worked with a data science staff before. Also, the form of options knowledge science can produce differ widely by industry; what works for one firm does not … Read more

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Today, Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (Fed Dev Ontario) announced an investment of over C$4 million to support two Ottawa-based tech companies: BluWave-ai Inc. and Tehama Inc.

BluWave-ai is a cleantech company that uses AI (artificial intelligence) to help utility companies add renewable energy sources to their electricity grid. It obtained a repayable contribution of C$1.7 million aimed at building and commercializing software products to manage Electric Vehicle (EV) fleet operations while reducing energy consumption and carbon-emitting vehicles.

Tehama offers cloud-based remote workplace Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) solutions for SMEs (small to medium-sized enterprises) and large enterprises. It is seeking to integrate new technologies and expand its cybersecure platform, and obtained a repayable contribution of C$2.7 million.

The combined investment leverages C$12.6 million in private sector support to the region.

“Today’s announcement will help home-grown technologies, while supporting the creation of over 85 high-quality jobs across the Ottawa region.” said

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