Kevin Townsend

The value of Ethereum, a cryptocurrency somewhat similar to bitcoin, has plummeted following a hack on The DAO's Ethereum holdings. The DAO is a...

The 2016 Ponemon 'Cost of Data Breach Study' shows that breach-related costs are continuing to rise: a 29% increase in the total cost since...

The choice between using a single vendor platform, and integrating best-of-breed point products from different vendors is as old as computing - but is...

Researchers have recently noted a large scale switch from the Angler exploit kit (EK) to the Neutrino exploit kit. Last Wednesday SANS ISC noted...

Two Israeli citizens, arrested in Israel in July 2015 and extradited to the US this week pleaded guilty Thursday to orchestrating a computer hacking...

$2.3 billion stolen from 17,642 victims in at least 79 countries. These are the current figures for the growing scourge known as business email...

The FFIEC has issued a statement alerting US financial institutions (FIs) to the interbank transfer threat following the recent spate of SWIFT-based attacks and...

Cloud computing remains a problem for many businesses. While the move to IaaS is gathering pace, it is still true that most organizations operate...

Port Scanning Project Infers Security Posture by Country

The blame game over who should be held responsible for the bank thefts via SWIFT continues. Ecuador's Banco del Austro (BDA) has already launched...

Last month it was LinkedIn (117 million passwords) and MySpace (427 million passwords). This weekend the same hacker, [email protected], made available a further 100...

When Heimdal Security reported on a new TorrentLocker ransomware campaign in Sweden just over a week ago, it noted that the attackers would likely soon...