Kevin Townsend

City of Atlanta Ransomware Attack Showcases Ethical Problem in Whether to Pay a Ransom or Not

Cybersecurity Tech Accord Comprises Fine Words With No Defined Deliverables and Perhaps Impossible Intentions

Honeypot Experiment Shows the Commoditization of Using Bots to Perform Low-level Hacking Tasks

At RSA Conference 2018 in San Francisco, CA, McAfee announced two additions to its cloud security program, and published a new analysis of the...

Symantec is releasing its own targeted attack analytics (TAA) tool to existing Symantec Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) customers free of additional charge. It is...

Vulnerability management has two major components: discovering vulnerabilities, and mitigating those vulnerabilities. The first component is pointless without the second component. So, for example,...

Mocana TrustCenter Manages Security Across IoT and ICS Device Lifecycles

The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) has developed a new IoT Security Maturity Model (SMM), building on its own security framework and reference architecture. This...

Malicious Cryptomining Spikes, While Virtually All Other Malware Declines

A new type of ATM jackpotting malware has been discovered. Dubbed ATMJackpot, the malware appears to be still under development, and to have originated...

Recorded Future's "Insikt" threat intelligence research group has linked the Mirai variant IoTroop (aka Reaper) botnet with attacks on the Netherlands financial sector in January...

Security Analysts Require Improved Visibility as well as Improved Threat Detection

Lack of Control Over Sensitive Files Leaves Companies Open to GDPR Failure

Meta NaaS Provides a Software-defined Virtual 'Overlay' to Existing Disjointed Physical Networks

The Cambridge Analytica (CA) and Facebook accusations over the U.S. 2016 presidential election campaign, and to a lesser extent between CA and the UK's...

Cloudflare Launches Globally Available Secure Free DNS Resolver

Figures from an analysis of 4.5 million monitored devices across 246 companies show that for every 10,000 devices and workloads, 165 contain active threats....

Bad bots are big news largely because of the FBI investigation into Russia's involvement in the 2016 presidential election. But bad bots are a...

Criminals and Nation-state Actors Will Use Machine Learning Capabilities to Increase the Speed and Accuracy of Attacks

Businesses have lost faith in the ability of traditional anti-virus products to detect and prevent ransomware. Fifty-three percent of U.S companies infected by ransomware...