Kevin Townsend

A small fine of $20,000 in Sweden highlights a potential problem for the use of biometrics in security throughout Europe, including American firms with...

Tide Foundation Creating Marketplace Where PII Can be Safely Sold

An SMS phishing attack against many modern Android phones could route all internet traffic through a proxy controlled by the attacker. The problem lies...

By Mapping Skills and Training to MITRE ATT&CK, Skill Levels Can be Visualized in Real-Time

A new social engineering toolkit has been discovered. The operational premise has been used many times, but the execution of that premise is new...

In 2013, a Faronics/Ponemon study found that lack of budget and poor security capability skills were the primary causes behind the generally poor state...

Deepfakes are a growing threat. They are primarily a social engineering tool. That means they will increasingly be used in phishing attacks, BEC attacks,...

The Federal Information Security Modernization Act (FISMA) annual report to Congress for full year 2018 indicates considerable success in improving the cybersecurity of federal...

San Francisco, CA-based privileged access management (PAM) solution provider Remediant has closed a $15 million Series A funding round co-led by Dell Technologies Capital...

Twitter first announced Monday, August 19, 2019, that is updating its policy on state media advertising. "Going forward," it said, "we will not accept...

Hacker Elliot Gunton has been sentenced to 20 months in prison by Norwich (UK) County Court, but released immediately because of time already served...

A West Des Moines, Iowa-based grocery chain that also operates restaurants, fuel-pumps and drive-thru coffee shops is warning its customers about a security incident...

Americans have a pragmatic view towards cybersecurity. For example, while 86% believe that paying ransoms merely encourages more attacks, 70% accept that when organizations...

Yet another database of personal information has been found on an unsecured server. This one stands out for its size, the range of unencrypted...

A KNOB (key negotiation of Bluetooth) attack against the basic rate/enhanced data rate (BR/EDR, or Bluetooth Classic) configuration can result in information disclosure and/or...

British Airways (BA) has been criticized for allowing hackers easy access to customer flight information. The issue was exposed Tuesday by researchers who discovered...

Myers-Briggs is a firm that believes in self-development through self-awareness. To improve the level of self-awareness, it has developed a psychometric test to indicate...

In May 2019 (updated in June), F5 issued a security advisory about a potential injection issue in the Tool Command Language (TCL) as used...

In the past, data protection regulation has largely been concerned with preventing the theft of personal data. Security and security products have focused on...

The growth of IoT devices has highlighted the difficulties in ensuring firmware security -- especially where the device and software are initially sourced from...