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

Federal privacy commissioner will watch threat information sharing, says official

New federal law allows organizations to share personal data related to possible crimes, but CISOs should be careful

Zen Cart shopping cart issues patch to close XSS vulnerabilities

Vendor had earlier issued separate patches for the Cross-site scripting problems, but decided a global fix is better

Three new ransomware variants reported

New strains overwrite master boot record, leverage PowerShell or compromise servers, say vendors

Vulnerabilities in Apple OS X, iOS exploit protection features

Security vendors find bugs in OS X's System Integrity Protection and iOS's digital rights management framework

Providers, domain registrars not doing enough to prevent DNS compromise: Vendor

Not only was malicious domain creation up to near record levels in Q4 2015, the country hosting most of them was the U.S. A Canadian expert offers advice

Threat intelligence exchanges OK, but most prefer to receive intel rather than give

Infosec pros like getting threat intelligence, a survey suggests, but are less eager to give it out

Ontario hospital website may have been feeding ransomware, administrator admits

Unpatched version of Joomla CMS may have allowed malicious scripts to be added to Web site

Linux systems have to be patched for latest Ghost vulnerability

Another bug in the glibc library has been found that has to fixed before it is exploited

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