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Sakeina Syed

Toronto

Writer at Freelance

repentant writer ✷ work in vogue, the toronto star, the globe and mail, the walrus, slate, etc

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  • PODCAST: Spacing Radio 077, Spring cleaning in Toronto - Spacing Toronto

    Apr 30, 2024 | spacing.ca | John Lorinc |Sakeina Syed

    With the change of the seasons, we talk about different kinds of renewal. First, Senior Editor John Lorinc talks about the special Spacing investigation into the cyber attack on the Toronto Public Library that shut the service down for months. How did it happen, and how do we make sure our public institutions are hacker-proof? And, the latest Spacing Magazine issue is on shelves now.

  • Spacing investigation: Toronto Public Library ransomware attack, pt. IV - Spacing Toronto

    Apr 2, 2024 | spacing.ca | John Lorinc |Sakeina Syed

    By John Lorinc and Sakeina SyedAlthough TPL officials maintained an official no-comment stance for much of the shutdown — TPL chief librarian Vickery Bowles told The Globe and Mail‘s Oliver Moore in late December that she’d been advised “not to talk about the threat actor” — the organization undertook a public relations beginning later in January to burnish its image.

  • Spacing investigation: Toronto Public Library ransomware attack, pt. V - Spacing Toronto

    Apr 1, 2024 | spacing.ca | John Lorinc |Sakeina Syed

    This is a five-part series independently produced and investigated by SpacingThe Toronto Public Library’s chief librarian, Vickery Bowles, sat down for an extended virtual interview with Spacing‘s senior editor John Lorinc to share her perspectives and experiences of the ransomware attack. The interview transcript has been edited and condensed. Spacing: There was a fairly sharp warning about cybersecurity risk from the Auditor General in 2021.

  • Spacing investigation: Toronto Public Library ransomware attack, pt. III - Spacing Toronto

    Mar 28, 2024 | spacing.ca | John Lorinc |Sakeina Syed

    This is a five-part series independently produced and investigated by SpacingAt some point in mid-2020, with the pandemic raging, the Toronto Public Library began working with the Gartner Group, a large U.S. research and IT consulting firm, to re-launch the TPL’s 2020-2024 Digital Strategy, work on which had been sidelined by the lockdown.

  • Spacing investigation: Toronto Public Library ransomware attack, pt. II - Spacing Toronto

    Mar 27, 2024 | spacing.ca | John Lorinc |Sakeina Syed

    This is a five-part series independently produced and investigated by SpacingOn October 29, a Sunday, a TPL branch manager got a call on his cell from his supervisor, who relayed the following instructions: “`We’ve had a cybersecurity incident and we need you to basically open the phone tree.

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