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

New Dyre bank trojan variant lures victims to phony contact centre

IBM has warned organizations to watch for new malware that has tricked employees into giving up passwords

Organizations scrambling to update servers for payment card systems

This month the PCI Security Standards Council will officially kill SSL encryption. Security pros have to enable TLS

Malware campaign attacking select targets, including Canada

Suspected by Check Point Software of coming from Lebanon, it has hit defence, telecom and educational institutions

Eight per cent of your partners may be a high security risk: Study

Organizations that firms allow to connect to their networks could pose a greater security risk than CSOs assume

Advice to CSOs: Have a sense of humour

The chief security officer for an analytics vendor says IT administrators have to be resilient to withstand the pressure of the job. Read why

Cisco issues fixes for IOS/IOS XE software

For the first time company issues bundles alerts and fixes for IOS and IOS XE operating systems

Expert Bruce Schneier: It’s hard not to despair over the state of IT security

15 years ago he wrote a book on network security. On the anniversary he looks back and sees little has changed

New PoS malware found, says Cisco

Dubbed PoSeidon, it includes a keylogger for passwords and a memory scraper to scoop credit card numbers

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