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Kevin Townsend

Kevin Townsend is a Senior Contributor at SecurityWeek. He has been writing about high tech issues since before the birth of Microsoft. For the last 15 years he has specialized in information security; and has had many thousands of articles published in dozens of different magazines – from The Times and the Financial Times to current and long-gone computer magazines.

The changing nature of what we still generally call ransomware will continue through 2023, driven by three primary conditions.

The three primary drivers for cyber regulations are voter privacy, the economy, and national security – with the complication that the first is often...

Despite some geopolitical overlaps with state attackers, the majority of cyberattacks still come from simple – or perhaps sophisticated – criminals who are more...