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

RSA Conference 2019: Russia, China still pose threats, says FBI chief

Christopher Wray talks tough about Russia, China, and denies he wants backdoors to defeat encryption

RSA Conference 2019 keynotes: Protect trust, the bad in AI and embrace OT

Opening day keynotes looked at the future of digital trust, the good and the bad in AI and how IT infosec pros can help OT counterparts

Cyber Security Today: What to expect from RSA Conference with Palo Alto Networks

SAN FRANCISCO -- The annual RSA Security Conference officially kicked off Tuesday morning with keynotes from host RSA, Cisco Systems and the FBI. Contributing writer...

Cyber Security Today: March 4, 2019 – Banking trojan, how to be a millionaire

Today's podcast covers a report on a new version of the Qbot banking trojan, a reminder to update the Android ShareIT app and how two good-guy hackers got to be millionaires

Cyber Security Today: March 1, 2019: Sextortion, Facebook and Elasticsearch

Today's podcast looks at a report that the rate of sextortion is increasing, Facebook will soon give users the ability to erase their history and an Elasticsearch warning

Add fighting cyber crime to ICANN’s work, urges Canadian Internet leader

A way to get countries to work together on fighting online crime suggested a conference of the Canadian Internet Governance Forum

Analysis of three malware families to help infosec pros

Gigamon report looks at behaviour of LokiBot, Trickbot and Emotet malware families for insight into how they work

U.K. firm crosses Atlantic to offer DNS protection appliance

Nominet to open Washington,D.C,. branch and begin looking for resellers in Canada and the U.S.

Tech News