Not a lot of surprise to find out Russian Hackers have been trying to steal information about a COVID-19 vaccine from Canada, Britain and the Americans over the last few months. 

David Swan, who calls Vulcan, AB, home but is a Director at the Centre for Strategic Cyberspace and International Studies, and has a background in military intelligence, says whether they're civilians or wearing uniforms the bad guy is the same. 

"They are for all intents and purposes working for the Russian government. Now the question becomes is the Russian government out to make money off this? Or just because they don't trust the rest of the world to provide them with a vaccine once it's ready and everything is coming out." 

Swan says the Kremlin has flatly denied any attempts to steal information. 

In the meantime, a handful of very high-profile Twitter users had their information hacked this past week. 

Swan says the hack came because somebody inside the company gave up information they shouldn't have. 

"A group of relatively low level no brains, sucked one or more Twitter employees into revealing some passwords and backdoors to find out some internal information." 

People like Elon Musk, Bill Gates and even former U.S. President Barrack Obama were hacked, with the hackers then sending out spam to their followers looking for Bitcoin before Twitter could shut down the accounts. 

Surprisingly, Twitter's most high-profile user, U.S. President Donald Trump's account wasn't hacked. 

Swan says no one will ever call you looking for your passwords, so don't give them up or you open the door to being hacked. 

Meanwhile, 5G technology is getting a lot of buzz, both good and bad. 

Some say it's great, other's say it's scary, and Swan says don't let Huawei build it in Canada. 

"5G is a great thing. It's more Internet, faster, more reliably. 5G is not a conspiracy to get access to anything. If you're using a Huawei product, there is no way that you can guarantee that the data is not being relayed at some point to the Chinese Communist government." 

Swan says much of the technology for Huawei's 5G network can be traced back to former Canadian tech giant Nortel, which was hacked back in 2004 and out of business in 2009, with many fingers being pointed at the Chinese government as the culprits.