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

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

How a small Canadian company fell victim to ransomware

First day on the new job, an executive clicked on an attachment

Rio Games faced olympic-sized DDoS attacks

Threat actors leveraging default passwords in IoT devices to create botnet, vendor warns

Sensitive user information repository in OneLogin penetrated, company admits

Password theft led exploit of bug in the Identity and access manager's Secure Notes store

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