Kevin Townsend

Decryption keys for a current version of Cryakl ransomware have been obtained and uploaded to the NoMoreRansom website. Victims of Cryakl can potentially recover...

Two more misconfigured databases exposing the personal details of thousands of people were disclosed late last week.

Researchers have discovered a new Point of Sale (POS) malware. They cannot tell yet whether it is new code still being developed, or already...

Leading Cloud Service Providers and Majority of AV Engines Failed to Detect New Ransomware Variant

Just as the Scope of 'Responsible Encryption' is Vague, So Too Are the Technical Requirements Necessary to Achieve It

Report Claims a 2,000 Employee Organization Spends $16 Million Annually on Incident Triaging

As if there aren't enough ways to attack a WordPress site, an Israeli researcher has published details of how almost anyone can launch a...

Cisco, Apple, Aon, Allianz Partner to Help Businesses Protect Against Common Malware Threats

It is time, suggest two academics from Indiana University-Bloomington, for Congress to establish a National Cybersecurity Safety Board (NCSB) as an analogue of the...

Machine Learning is a Black Box that is Poorly Understood

Travon Williams, 33, was sentenced by the District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia to 9 years in jail for his role in...

Companies must be wary of chasing shiny new threats with shiny new defenses, while leaving legacy systems vulnerable to legacy malware. 

AutoSploit Automatically Finds Vulnerable Targets via Shodan and Uses Metasploit Exploits to Compromise Hosts

Howard S. Marshall, Deputy Assistant Director of the Cyber Division of the FBI, spoke Tuesday before the House Small Business Committee on the subject...

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced Monday that operators of a nationwide computer repair scam have been banned from...

The UK government has warned that Britain's most critical industries must boost their cybersecurity or face potentially hefty fines under the EU's Networks and...

Responding to the market's growing interest in, and use of, mobile payments, the PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) has announced a new standard...

Cybercrime in 2017 was a tumultuous year "full of twists and turns", with new (but old) infection methods, a major return to social engineering,...

The World Economic Forum (WEF) is establishing a new Global Centre for Cybersecurity "to help build a safe and secure global cyberspace."

Two SamSam Ransomware Healthcare Attacks, Two Variants, and Two Different Results