Kevin Townsend

Newly discovered cyber weapon uses elaborate multi-stage infection-chain to make detection and analysis difficult

Gartner first gave name to the Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) model, effectively defining it. SASE combines WAN and security as a cloud service. 

Bitcoin scams have soared over the last seven months. The surge started around October 2020, and the scams are continuing today.

API security firm 42Crunch has raised $17 million in a Series A funding round led by Energy Impact Partners and joined by Adara Ventures....

Ireland’s Health Service Executive (HSE) was hit by a ransomware attack late last week, forcing the organization to shut down its IT system (reported...

The DarkSide ransomware threat that triggered the shut down of the Colonial pipeline is growing. It was reported yesterday that German Chemical distribution giant...

Gartner believes it will be four years before the market achieves two-thirds of the position a WSJ Intelligence and Forcepoint survey says is already...

UK's National Cyber Security Centre highlights the success of its Active Cyber Defence (ACD) program

A major survey that like all surveys needs to be examined carefully rather than accepted blindly.

Billions of Android devices are exposed to a vulnerability in Qualcomm’s Mobile Station Modem (MSM) chipA vulnerability in Qualcomm’s Mobile Station Modem (MSM) chip–...

A new variant of the Buer malware loader has been detected, written in Rust. The original version is written in C. Rust is efficient,...

Researchers at Cybereason say they have discovered an undocumented malware targeting the Russian military sector and bearing the hallmarks of originating in China if...

Previously undocumented and stealthy Linux malware named RotaJakiro has been discovered targeting Linux X64 systems. It has been undetected for at least three years,...

Manual penetration testing (pen-testing) is increasingly challenged by automated methods of vulnerability discovery and management. The reasons are not difficult to understand: the cost...

SecurityWeek discusses what makes a good leader with two CISOs – Jennifer Watson of Raytheon Intelligence & Space and Mary Haigh of BAE Systems.

New service can tell a company which users have a password known to hackers, without having to know the usernames

The FBI and DHS have issued a Joint Cybersecurity Advisory on the threat posed by the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) via the cyber...