Brian Prince

The subject of cyber liability insurance has gained steam in recent years as news of high-profile data breaches continues to litter the headlines.

The attack group known as APT3 is now using exploits for recently-patched Windows vulnerabilities, according to a report from FireEye.

Adobe Systems pushed out a security update for Flash Player today to further harden the product against attacks. The update is for Windows, Mac...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and several privacy and civil liberties groups have joined forces to urge the National Institute of Standards and Technology...

The layers of the Regin cyber-attack platform are just beginning to be pulled back. One of those layers gives attackers the means to penetrate...

A new report from Verisign on distributed denial-of-service attacks showed that the number of distributed denial-of-service [DDoS] attacks exceeding 10 Gbps grew substantially between...

New research from Rapid7 has uncovered multiple vulnerabilities in the Hikvision DVR (Digital Video Recorder) devices. Researchers discovered three buffer overflow vulnerabilities in Hikvision's...

A federal court has temporarily shut down and frozen the assets of two telemarketing operations accused by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) of scamming...

Researchers at Core Security have disclosed multiple vulnerabilities affecting products from Advantech Corp., which provides industrial automation and embedded solutions.

Underground cyber-markets have certain goods in common: malware, distributed denial-of-service for hire, etc. But the Brazilian cyber-underground is offering something relatively unique - training....

The U.S. hosts more than two-fifths of all malicious links and more than a quarter of all the botnet command and control servers in...

A survey of companies in the U.K. more than half are willing to hire a hacker to help deal with a shortfall of cyber-security...

One percent does not sound like a lot, but multiple it by the right number, and it can be.

An annual survey released recently by the Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG) highlights the successes and failures of database security.

Sometimes, securing your own network isn't enough to guard against a data breach; your ecosystem of third-party providers can introduce a new set of...

The United States Postal Service (USPS) has shut down employee VPN (virtual private network) access and suspended telecommuting until further notice for employees at Postal...

Point-of-sale malware has been at the center of numerous high-profile breaches this year. Many of those attacks have involved three pieces of malware –...

Microsoft released 14 security bulletins today as part of Patch Tuesday, including a critical update for Internet Explorer.

Researchers with Kaspersky Lab say they have identified the first victims of the infamous Stuxnet worm discovered in 2010.

BrowserStack is back online after temporarily suspending service due to an attack.