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

Rising spam a sign that Necurs botnet has returned with new payloads

After a drop in global spam volumes for four years, there's been a leap in the past few months

Security framework released for industrial Internet of Things

Document details how equipment builders, system integrators and operators of industrial networks can safeguard systems and measure risk

Prepare for threat of quantum computing to encrypted data, Canadian conference told

With the possibility a supercomputer could be built by 2026 that would break existing encryption CISOs have to act

Sophos anti-exploit solution detects ransomware; HPE updates security suites

Sophos releases Intercept X, which looks for exploit techniques and includes the ability to stop ransomware from encrypting files

McAfee strategy won’t change with privatization, says exec

Intel Security CTO talks about the sale to a private equity firm and mistakes CISOs make

Why digital and physical security teams need to work together

SecOps, NetOps and physical security can't work in silos, writes an expert

U.S. Congressional report blames management for huge federal breach

Theft of security information on 21 million from Office of Personnel Management could have been avoided, if not tempered. There are lessons here

Manager tricked into downloading POS malware by phoney IT staffer

Attacker spoofed email of an IT employee to get company to download file. Read about lessons to be learned

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