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Howard Solomon

Toronto
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I'm a Toronto-based freelance IT writer and podcaster specializing in cybersecurity.
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Warning to AI agent developers: Put controls on your creations or they’ll go rogue

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By Howard Solomon
| Substack
The warning came from an SAP security consultant at the SecTor 2026 conference in Toronto For most of us, AI is either the greatest threat to mankind or a huge opportunity for a leap in productivity and innovation. Helen Oakley, strategic advisor on AI and cybersecurity to enterprise resource management software maker SAP, came close to telling the Canadian SecTor cybersecurity conference Thursday that if developers don’t assert control over their AI creations if may be the former.
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How AI is affecting cybersecurity jobs

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By Howard Solomon
| Substack
At Toronto’s SecTor conference experts offered advice to juniors and experienced pros on the cybersecurity job market today AI isn’t eliminating entry-level cybersecurity jobs, the annual SecTor cybersecurity conference in Toronto was told Wednesday, but it is changing expectations of employers of the analytical skills successful applications will need to show if they want to be hired.
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US, UK, and Netherlands warn of Iranian spyware campaign

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By Howard Solomon
| Substack
Government cybersecurity experts from the U.K., the U.S. and the Netherlands today warned Iranian dissidents, activists and journalists who cover the Middle East and are opposed to the current government that Iranian state cyber attackers are trying to trick then into downloading software that can track their movements. The spear phishing campaign is aimed at getting targets to install a Windows application that U.K. researchers dub Chosen Brick and the FBI calls HeavyGram.
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