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

Prying secrets from encrypted traffic may not be so hard

Researchers say it could be easier than thought to deduce things about Internet users by just looking at traffic patterns

Risk management provider now ranks organizations against each other

BitSight Technologies can look at what's flowing out of a network of almost any organization

Cloud is fastest-growing segment of Oracle revenue

SaaS, PaaS revenue up 23 per cent in the past year. Also, it's about to buy a CRM screen sharing provider

Don’t yank Java so fast, says expert

A security advisor says there's a way to let Java run safely in the enterprise

Free open switch creator hopes to boost software-defined networking

Infoblox has donated what it calls Lincx to the open movement supporting SDN

Another reason to be wary of Android

Columbia University computer scientists find poorly-written Google Play store apps with secret authorization keys

BlackBerry posts another loss, but not as much as expected

Loss of US$60 million is relatively good, some think

What are IT security’s biggest mistakes? This might surprise you

At a Canadian security conference Symantec's principal technologist doesn't pull punches

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