Kevin Townsend

Menlo Security, a provider of zero-trust internet isolation services, has raised $75 million in a Series D funding round led by clients advised by...

LaPorte County, Indiana, reported Sunday that it had been affected by a malware attack. County Commission President Dr. Vidya Kora announced that county employees...

UK ICO Shows its Teeth in Fining BA £183 Million for 2018 Breach 

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and New America's Open Technology Institute (OTI) have published their combined response to the UK government's Online Harms White...

During an investigation into a possibly shared RTF weaponizer by Indian and Chinese APT groups, researchers have discovered that multiple Chinese groups have updated...

Americans are keen on security, but do not necessarily understand it. This is the conclusion of a new survey of 1,300 Americans undertaken by...

Bruce Schneier announced in a brief blog post, "I'm leaving IBM." His three-year stint with what he calls "the nicely ambiguous title of 'Special...

Hacking Smart Homes - the Stuff of Horror Movies

It may sound far-fetched, but American tech firms could be excused for wondering if the European Union is using consumer-oriented legislation as a form...

On June 25, 2019, Cybereason reported that hackers, most likely China's state affiliated APT10 group, had comprehensively hacked numerous telecommunications companies around the world.

A New ENISA to Develop New Harmonized European Security Certifications

Waltham, MA-based email security firm GreatHorn has raised an additional $13 million in a new funding round technically filed as a Series A-1. The...

Researchers have discovered a chain of flaws in EA Games' login process that could allow an attacker to take over the accounts of any...

China-Linked Hackers Have Breached Deep Inside Teleco Providers and Have Complete Control of Data and Networks

LokiBot info-stealing malware is again being distributed in a malspam campaign using attached ISO image file attachments. Similar was reported in August 2018, but...

78,000 Patient Healthcare Records Exposed in Unsecured MongoDB Database

The UK regulator for data protection and privacy (the Information Commissioner's Office -- ICO) has published a report on its ongoing investigation into the...

MongoDB Inc, developer of the NoSQL MongoDB document-based database management product, has announced the latest version, 4.2. The primary new features are distributed transactions, an...

Attackers Explore How to Defeat Machine Learning (ML)-Based Defenses and Use ML in Their Own Attacks

San Francisco, CA-based Aptible has raised $12 million in a Series A funding round led by Maverick Capital, with additional investors Thrive Capital and...