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Howard Solomon

  • Journalist and Photographer, Freelance
  • None, CSO
  • None, CSO Online
  • None, IT World Canada
Toronto
As seen in: CSO, Substack, National Post, Computerworld, CIO, Financial Post, InfoWorld, Ottawa Citizen, Vancouver Sun, Montreal Gazette, Network World and
I'm a Toronto-based freelance IT writer and podcaster specializing in cybersecurity.
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Canada’s new AI strategy: Does it get a yawn or thumbs up from CSOs?

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By Howard Solomon
| Substack
Ottawa announces new artificial intelligence strategy! And infosec leaders across the country yawn. To be fair, the strategy announced Thursday wasn’t intended to reveal laws or regulations forcing firms to protect customer data or be transparent about how their large language model (LLM) algorithms work. That will come later when new consumer privacy and AI legislation – again – is brought before Parliament.
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The annual Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report is out

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By Howard Solomon
| Substack
Wise infosec leaders will find it useful, and maybe a tool to use when talking to CEOs Exploitation of vulnerabilities has become the most common initial access vector for data breaches, according to the annual Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report. The report, released Tuesday, analyzes anonymized data from 22,000 data breaches in 145 countries between October 31, 2024 and November 1, 2025.
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The Ransomware Task Force report five years later: Progress has slowed

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By Howard Solomon
| Substack
Two American cybersecurity professionals were sentenced Thursday to four years each in prison for deploying the ALPHV BlackCat ransomware against U.S. organizations in 2023. In one attack they extorted one victim for approximately $1.2 million in Bitcoin. Another co-conspirator, a ransomware negotiator for victim firms, has pleaded guilty to a charge and will be sentenced in July. It was another score for law enforcement agencies around the world against a ransomware operation.
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