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

Facebook agrees to pay $5 billion fine; Zuckerberg forbidden from any role over privacy decisions

Proposed settlement stems from the Cambridge Analytica scandal and imposes obligations on Facebook for the next 20 years

Cyber Security Today: A new Office 356 attack, librarians versus LinkedIn and patch this software

Today's podcast looks at a new Office 365 attack aimed at admins, librarians object to LinkedIn plan for video site and lots of software to be patched

Average cost of a data breach is nearly $4 million, says study

Annual IBM-Ponemon Institute report shows what contributes to costs of data breaches going up as well as what helps keep costs down

New attack on Elasticsearch instances detected

Trend Micro warns users of the tool to update to the latest version to avoid being exploited by new attack

Equifax could pay up to $700 million in proposed U.S. settlement for data breach

Company comes to proposed dea; with US regulators for not taking basic steps that could have prevented 'staggering' breach

Cyber Security Today: Fake Office 365 site, don’t trust strangers and warning on college web site software

Today's podcast looks at what's behind a fake Office365 website, explains why you don't trust strangers on the Internet and finds a warning on college web site software

Cyber Security Today: Ransomware advice, Android spyware and Slack alert

Today's podcast looks at how companies should prepare for ransomware, the discovery of stalking apps in the Google Play store and why Slack is resetting thousands of passwords

The status of Canadian women in cyber security called ‘sad’

Sexism, bullying, harassment still part of the IT industry, conference told, Read what women speakers said and what they want done

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