Alex Coop

Former Editorial Director for IT World Canada and its sister publications.

Articles by Alex Coop

Hashtag Trending – Amazon eyeing Sears and JCPenney; Google Home snooping; A new app for police encounters

Amazon wants to convert Sears and JCPenney to fulfillment centres, Google Home may be listening to just about everything, and a highschool student builds an app that records your interaction with police and shares it on social media

ITWC Morning Briefing, August 10, 2020 – Experts weigh in on Reddit hack

To keep up with the firehose of news and press releases, we’ve decided to deliver some extra news to you on the side every...

ITWC Morning Briefing, August 6, 2020 – Talking exposure notification apps with Sophos’ Chester Wisniewski

We talk with a cybersecurity expert from Sophos about the effectiveness of exposure notification apps, a round up a bunch of news.

BlackBerry launches open-source tool to help reverse engineer malware

After being open-sourced on GitHub since last week, BlackBerry made it official yesterday by releasing its new Python-based app to help reverse engineer pesky malware.

ITWC Morning Briefing, July 27, 2020 – Good ol’ fashioned news roundup

A roundup of recent news: Intel earnings, a new report from Cisco, and much more.

Top Women in Cyber Security Celebration: Honouree roundup

Earlier this year, ITWC and WISECRA reached out to the technology community and asked for nominations of individuals who deserved to be recognized as...

ITWC Morning Briefing, July 23, 2020 – Talking tech jobs with Lighthouse Labs CEO

We speak with Lighthouse Labs CEO Jeremy Shaki about tech jobs, and recap the latest news from Microsoft, Twitter, and much more.

Trend Micro Canada launches its first data centre in Toronto

Trend Micro Canada announced the opening of its first Canadian data centre this week.

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