Kevin Townsend

Cybercriminals are shifting their focus from Adobe to Microsoft consumer products, and are now concentrating more on targeted attacks than on web-based exploit kits.

Since emerging from Intel as a standalone cybersecurity company in April 2017, McAfee has consistently made multiple new product announcements simultaneously. It has continued...

Troels Oerting to Head the Global Centre for Cybersecurity

A ransomware attack -- possibly a variant of SamSam -- has affected some customer-facing applications and some internal services at the City of Atlanta....

There are more than 1.86 billion websites on the internet. Around 1% of these -- something like 18,500,000 -- are infected with malware at...

Israeli Cybersecurity Startup Launches Automated Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) Simulation Platform

As Americans wait to see whether net neutrality can gain enough support among lawmakers to invoke disapproval via the Congressional Review Act, individual states...

A vulnerability exists in MikroTik's RouterOS in versions prior to the latest 6.41.3, released Monday, March 12, 2018. Details were discovered February and disclosed...

Legal Requirement for Cyber Insurance May be Necessary to Protect Privileged Credentials

Tel Aviv-based cyber-attack prevention firm Solebit Labs, currently establishing new global headquarters in Silicon Valley, has announced completion of an $11 million Series A...

Almost Every Type of Cyber Attack is Increasing in Both Volume and Sophistication

The good news is that security operations centers (SOCs) are becoming more efficient. The not-so-good news is that there is still considerable scope for...

Industrial Internet Consortium Guidance Aims to Improve IIoT Endpoint Security for Manufacturers and Practitioners

New York and Tel Aviv-based behavioral biometric authentication firm BioCatch has raised $30 million in new growth financing led by Maverick Ventures, and including...

New North Korean Hidden Cobra / Lazarus Campaign Targets Financial Institutions in TurkeyHidden Cobra, also known as the Lazarus Group from North Korea, is...

[UPDATE] Mid-day Tuesday (PST), Microsoft's Windows Defender blocked more than 80,000 instances of several new variants of the Dofoil (aka Smoke Loader) downloader. The...

Web application scanner company Netsparker announced on Thursday that it has raised $40 million from San Francisco-based growth and private equity firm Turn/River.

Browsers are the single most used application today. Everyone uses at least one browser, whether in the office or at home. But not everyone...