Kevin Townsend

HSBC bank has become the latest financial institution to adopt smartphone-based biometrics as a form of user authentication. Institutions already doing so include MasterCard...

Google has signed up for the EU/U.S. Privacy Shield, which provides a set of enforceable protections for the personal data of EU individuals.

When LeakedSource yesterday disclosed the account details of 43 million account details stolen from Last.fm in 2012, it commented that it was processing enough...

Smartphone malware infections increased by 96% over the year to April 2016; smartphones account for 78% of all mobile infections; and the number of...

In a private letter to its members on Tuesday, SWIFT has disclosed that additional cyber attacks have surfaced since its last update in June.

Three of today's biggest IT evolutions are digital transformation; a move from binary-based to probability-based security; and the search for a single seamless fabric...

The European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA) published The cost of incidents affecting CIIs – a review ‘of studies concerning the...

At some point in the recent past -- he is not sure exactly when -- F-Secure's Chief Research Officer Mikko Hypponen coined the term...

On May 4, VirusTotal (VT) made two specific changes to its policies that were at the time seen as particularly aimed at the nex

Following a Freedom of Information (FoI) request from endpoint security firm SentinelOne, it is suggested that 56% of UK universities have been the target...

News emerged last week that a hacking group known as The Equation Group had itself been hacked by a separate group known as the Shadow Brokers.

Microsoft has been getting bad press over concerns with Windows 10. There are two primary reasons: firstly that the company is, or has been, overly...