Howard Solomon

Currently a freelance writer, I'm the former editor of ITWorldCanada.com and Computing Canada. An IT journalist since 1997, I've written for several of ITWC's sister publications including ITBusiness.ca and Computer Dealer News. Before that I was a staff reporter at the Calgary Herald and the Brampton (Ont.) Daily Times. I can be reached at hsolomon [@] soloreporter.com

Articles by Howard Solomon

Cyber Security Today: Advice for fraud awareness month, ransomware hits aluminum producer and protect against spear phishing

Today's podcast offers advice for Fraud Awareness Month, outlines how ransomware hit an aluminum producer and tells how to protect against spear phishing

Federal Budget 2019: More money for cyber security

The proposed budget has extra money for helping the private sector improve critical infrastructure, for protecting democracy and creating a network for universities specializing in cyber security

Mirai botnet targets more enterprise devices: Report

A wireless presentation system and a digital supersign are among the Internet connected devices targeted for exploit

Beware of rise of formjacking, says Symantec

Criminals are increasingly finding ways to inject code into ecommerce sites to steal credit card and other personal data. This and other findings come from Symantec's annual review

Facebook Canada creates advisory committee to help screen issue ads during election

Facebook Canada will require advertisers to confirm their identities before running political, election-related and issue ads, including those that refer to candidates, the company...

Cyber Security Today: More websites infected, mobile threats to companies and an email delivery scam

Today's podcast reports on criminals stealing credit card data from infected websites, a report urging companies to toughen defences against mobile device attacks and the latest email package delivery scam

IMAP being used by hackers to bypass multi-factor authentication, says report

In a study Proofpoint found attackers have learned how to get around MFA -- use an old protocol

Nova Scotia mocked by privacy group for charging teen for accessing documents

The Electronic Frontier Foundation included incident in its annual list of the worst in government transparency

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