Kevin Townsend

Security testing firm IOActive recently surveyed 129 security professionals on the security of Internet of Things devices at its IOAsis San Francisco 2016 event March...

New Android spyware, apparently targeting government security job seekers, has been detected in Saudi Arabia. The code is poor but the malware works efficiently,...

Law enforcement officers have arrested 50 hackers across Russia involved in bank fraud using the Lurk trojan, following 86 raids in 15 regions. Fourteen...

The third known and second successful attack against banks using the SWIFT money transfer network impacted an Ecuadorian bank between January 12 and January...

Trustwave SpiderLabs has discovered a 0-day Windows exploit being offered for sale on an underground forum for Russian speaking cyber criminals. Although the researchers...

ICS-CERT has released a security advisory for an ICS product used in the energy industry that cannot be patched, and there are publicly available...

The SANS CIS top twenty critical security controls (CSCs) is a living document reflecting world-wide expert opinion on the primary controls that can best...

The official Bangladesh government probe into the $81 million dollar theft via SWIFT in February has suggested the possibility of insider involvement. In February...

Carnegie Mellon University's CERT has issued a security advisory on the MEDHOST Perioperative Information Management System (PIMS), a system designed to streamline the progress from...

A new TorrentLocker campaign has been detected by Heimdal Security that is geographically focused on Sweden. And like earlier campaigns, this ransomware threat is delivered by...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced that Texas has entered into an Assurance of Voluntary Compliance agreement with PayPal over alleged privacy and security...

For all of last week and continuing into this week, major DNS and traffic management provider NS1 suffered a continuing and complex DDoS attack...