Kevin Townsend

The recent WannaCry outbreak is still a mystery. We know what (ransomware), and how (a Windows vulnerability on unsupported or unpatched systems); but we don't know...

Rep. Tom Graves (R-Ga.) has released an updated version (PDF) of his draft Active Cyber Defense Certainty (ACDC) Act, incorporating feedback from the business...

GDPR Roundup: New Products, Surveys and Industry Commentary

The European General Data Protection Regulation will take effect in exactly one year from today. It will affect any company that does business with...

A new research report takes an unusual angle. Rather than analyzing a threat or an attacker, it looks at the psychology of the user...

Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is the security industry's response to failings in the simple and traditional userID/password authentication approach. MFA is considered to be a...

In a cyber intrusion dubbed Operation Cobalt Kitty, the OceanLotus hacking group -- otherwise known as APT32 -- played cat-and-mouse with a security firm...

New Multi-factor Authentication Offering Seeks Balance Between Strong Security and Ease of Use

The balance between encouraging mobility for business purposes and controlling it for security remains as tricky today as ever. Ninety-three percent of organizations are...

Just as global intelligence firm Stratfor extracts and presents geopolitical intelligence from the noise of available information, so now does Flashpoint extract cyber business...

ImageMagick, an open source command line graphics file editor, has been retired by one of its major consumers: Yahoo. The product has been beset...

Financial services is perhaps the most regulated sector in industry. SEC, FINRA and Gramm-Leach-Bliley are merely the better known of a raft of regulations....