Kevin Townsend

Companies Should Not Dismiss a Bit of Grey Hatting by Staff as Just a Form of Letting Off Steam

A security firm established a sophisticated honeypot masquerading as a power transmission substation for a major electricity provider. The purpose was to attract attackers...

Clarkson PLC (Clarksons), a global shipping services firm, this week provided an update to the breach it suffered between May and November 2017. Little...

Popular Community Site Reddit Breached Through Continued Use of NIST-Deprecated SMS Two Factor Authentication (2FA)

Email continues to be the starting point for the majority of all security breaches. The 2018 Verizon Data Breaches Investigation Report (DBIR) says that...

The SamSam ransomware has always been a bit different. Unlike many ransomware infections, its victims are targeted rather than random -- and the attacker...

Malvertising Campaign Steals Traffic From 10,000 Hacked WordPress Sites and Exploits the Online Advertising Supply Chain

Neither Current Technology Nor Security Awareness Training Will Stop Email Threats

Vancouver, Canada-based customer identity and access management (cIAM) firm LoginRadius has raised $17 million Series A funding led by ForgePoint Capital and Microsoft's venture...

Complex Compliance Requirements are Delaying U.S. Government's Digital Transformation, Study Shows

Survey of Incident Responders Shows That Businesses Need to Re-architect Cybersecurity

Cryptominers have plateaued, GandCrab is the new king of ransomware, adware -- surprise! -- is as prolific as ever, and VPNFilter might herald a...

Confirming a trend noted by other researchers, a new report from network security firm Cryptonite notes that ransomware incidents have declined over the last six...

Through Multiple Methods and Collaborations, Many Hackers Donate Money to Good Causes

The European Union is active in passing cybersecurity legislation ostensibly for the European Union but with worldwide ramifications.

Some hacks are serendipitous events for skiddies who happen across a website with an easily exploitable common vulnerability. Others, especially the major breaches of...

Failure to Modernize Legacy DoD Systems is Putting U.S. National Security in Jeopardy, Report Claims

In June 2018, Ticketmaster UK warned that some of its customers -- which it put at less than 5% of its global customer base...

London, UK-based email archiving and security firm Mimecast has acquired Bethesda, Md-based security training company Ataata. Financial terms of the acquisition have not been...