Brian Jackson

Former editorial director of IT World Canada. Current research director at Info-Tech

Articles by Brian Jackson

How ScotiaBank plugged a Black Hole

Hackers often take advantage of a large organization's challenge in patching a huge number or end-points. One such package, the Black Hole exploit kit, is particularly good at evading anti-virus software

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Disappointed cultural groups won't give up trying to compel Internet service providers to contribute funding to Canadian productions despite ruling

Salesforce app could be tablet

At its San Francisco-based Dreamforce conference, Salesforce.com unveiled its new focus on creating a social-savvy enterprise with the help of an HTML5 mobile Web site. The launch could tip the scales for enterprise adoption of tablets, says one analyst

Waterloo ekes out medal in programming contest

For the 17th year in a row, the University of Waterloo made its way to the finals in IBM

SFU students second in sports-style programming competition

After clinching top spot in regular season play of the third annual ICPC Challenge hosted by IBM, Simon Fraser University narrowly missed winning the final match to win it all

Salesforce.com wants to woo your IT department

The cloud service provider has until now only been interested in talking to line-of-business workers about apps. It's now starting a dialogue with IT departments about a Ruby on Rails platform development service and IT services management

Google ‘carelessly’ broke Canadian law: Commissioner

The company is at fault for failing failure to follow procedure, says the privacy czar, who set a deadline for Google to meet her recommendations

CA claims new handle, launches Cloud Commons

Software vendor CA kicked off its annual conference by announcing a name change and launching a new Web-based community that seeks to demystify the cloud. Carnegie Mellon University has developed a new methodology that could become the standard to evaluate cloud-based services

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