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

No surprise about this malware

Some of the most common weapons recycle old components, says Israeli security company

Security predictions 2015: Encryption increases in enterprises

Forrester Research looks ahead and finds more enterprises will see privacy as a competitive differentiator

June 2104 in review: Big stories from big data

Advice on handling large data sets, a Supreme Court decision and fireworks -- again -- at a telecom conference

May 2014 in review: What’s really in that router?

The US National Security Agency reportedly has been opening routers and switches destined for certain customers and adding things

April 2014 in review: Heartbleed hits

Ottawa stung by bug, then again by a lost hard drive. Also, what Steve Jobs really though of CIOs

March 2014 in review: On Target

The clumsy IT security at the U.S. chain is exposed, and how a federal department lost a portable hard drive

February 2014 in review: New CEO takes charge at Microsoft

Satya Nadella is in the hot seat at Microsoft, Ottawa rakes in billions from spectrum auction and a vital security recommendation

January 2014 in review: Spectrum auction suprise

Wind Mobile unable to come up with money to bid, IBM intends to sell x86 server business and the first of a long list of retail data breaches discovered

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