Online privacy and security experts gathered in Victoria on the weekend to share strategies to protect computer networks they say are "under attack like never before."
Charles Wordsworth, technology security consultant and vice president of Privacy and Access Council of Canada, said the days of teenage computer hackers making mischief have been replaced by organized crime, much of it based in Eastern Europe.
A key concern is breaking into computer networks that collect personal information.
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