Kevin Townsend

Researchers have detected an Android trojan that abuses the web push technology. In its benign use, web push is used by legitimate websites --...

The City of Burlington, Ontario, revealed Thursday that it fell prey to "a complex phishing email" that cost the City CAD $503,000 (around USD...

Rep. Tom Graves, R-Ga., is reintroducing his Active Cyber Defense Bill today. He first floated the idea in March 2017, and published an updated...

Fireblocks Emerges From Stealth Mode to Protect Digital Assets in Hot Wallets and Transit

Rapid7 has analyzed the visible cyber exposure of some of the UK's largest companies -- the FTSE 250.

Following four years of self-funded fine-tuning in Europe, start-up security awareness firm CybeReady has expanded into the U.S. market with an initial funding round...

Researchers have detected a new campaign against the hotel-entertainment industry employing the first documented use of the ShellTea/PunchBuggy backdoor since 2017. It is also...

San Jose, Calif-based network threat detection and response firm Vectra has closed a $100 million Series E funding round led by TCV and supported...

Criminal use of, and threats from, the dark net are growing. At the same time, criminals are going darker through direct end-to-end encryption for...

"Data is the new oil," said mathematician Clive Humby in 2006 when designing a supermarket clubcard. But like crude oil, it is what can...

Critical vulnerabilities have been found in the Ukrainian IPTV video streaming platform Ministra, which uses Infomir-manufactured set top boxes (STBs) to transmit streaming content...

An Inside Look at the Evolution of a West African Cybercriminal Startup Turned BEC Enterprise

The Open Technology Institute (OTI) has responded to GCHQ/NCSC's article on 'Principles for a More Informed Exceptional Access Debate' with an 'Open Letter to...

2.3 billion files are currently exposed and accessible through misconfigured network-attached storage (NAS) devices, FTP and rsync servers, and Amazon S3 buckets to anyone...

Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is an essential part of business transformation and the Industry 4.0 revolution. Its use is burgeoning, with more than...

Marking the one-year anniversary of GDPR coming into force (May 25, 2018), a web-scanning service has analyzed the visible GDPR compliance of the 100...

Researchers have detected what they believe to be new activity from Chinese cyber espionage group, APT10. The activity surfaced in the Philippines and shares...

This is an age of large scale political social engineering through social media, both by advertising and the presentation of misleading data. International social...