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

Opposition still demands full wording of planned federal privacy, AI laws

Parliamentary committee demands government produce complete wording of amendments by Friday

‘Shocking’ cybersecurity numbers in survey of Canadian small businesses, says Mastercard

Only one-third of Canadian small business owners questioned were confident in their firm's cybersecurity tools, Mastercard Canada survey showed. That wasn't the only statistic

Cyber Security Today, Oct. 16, 2023 – Why a hacker created a fake conference website after the event, and more

This episode reports on Equifax UK fined US$13 million, Microsoft paying for finding AI vulnerabilities and more

Cyber Security Today, Week in Review for the week ending Friday, October 11, 2023

This episode features discussion on a possible SEC investigation of the MOVEit hacks, the theft of data from 23andMe, the Top 10 cybersecurity misconfigurations, and more

Cyber Security Today, Oct. 13, 2023 – A ransomware gang offers cash for employees to betray their firms

This episode reports on hackers targeting unpatched Confluence and WS_FTP servers, and more

No one suspected the man in a FedEx uniform …

... but by the time he finished a number of Phoenix firms had been scammed. Read how it was done

Gang says it stole more Air Canada data than the company admits

BianLian gang attempts to squeeze airline in a message on its data leak site

Warning to website admins: HTTP/2 zero-day causes massive DDoS attacks, patch now

Admins and developers are urged to watch for patches from their open source or commercial web proxy and web server providers

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