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

Give public more privacy rights, says Canadian commissioner

In submission for the consultation on data and digital transformation Daniel Therrien says privacy and innovation should be treated as equals. Read why

Cyber Security Today: Dec. 5, 2018 — Don’t get hit twice by a data breach, email money transfer scams and Apple kills two apps

Today's podcast looks at ways criminals take advantage of news of data breaches, why you need to watch who sends you email and Apple pulls two apps from its store because they force people to pay when logging in

Canadian researcher warns of vulnerability in protocol used by M2M applications

Researcher and Trend Micro separately found protocol design issues and implementation vulnerabilities

Canadian flower-ordering website hacked over four years

The Canadian website of a flower-ordering service has acknowledged that personal information including credit card numbers of an unspecified number of purchasers were exposed over...

Personal information of 100 million Quora users impacted by breach

Site says names, email addresses and encrypted passwords were among the data exposed

CATA report on critical infrastructure to wake SMEs about cyber threats

Many of the cyber incidents the public knows about are against large utilities and hospitals. CATA wants to make small and mid-size organizations aware they, too, are in the sights of attackers

Cyber Security Today: Dec. 3, 2018 –Lock down those databases, watch for updates from Sennheiser and Zoom

Today's podcast discovers problem open ElasticSearch databases, a warning about Sennheiser headphone software and a security update that needs to be installed by users of the Zoom desktop conferencing software

Starwood Hotels hack of 500 million customers over four years confirmed

Mariott Hotels this morning admitted encrypted and unencrypted personal information on 500 million customers who made reservations at one of its Starwood Hotels has...

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