Kevin Townsend

Mobile Alerts Improve Incident Response

Security is the Primary Concern for Firms Implementing an IoT Strategy, IT Pros Say

UK member of parliament (MP) Nadine Dorries has declared on Twitter that she shares the password to her work computer with staff 'including interns'. 

UK NCSC Chief Warns of Supply Chain Risk from Anti-Virus (AV) Software Products

Senators Propose New Data Protection Bill Following Equifax and Uber Breaches

The DHS ban on government agencies using Kaspersky Lab's security products has reverberated around the security industry. The concern is not simply whether the...

Is Social Media a Critical Industry?

Over the next year, five separate threats will have one major effect: the current rate of security breaches will increase and worsen. This is...

Samsung Adopts Bugcrowd, Offering up to $200,000 Per Vulnerability Through Mobile Security Rewards Program 

Seventy-five percent of 300 Android apps tested by Exodus Privacy and analyzed by the Yale Privacy Lab contain embedded trackers, including Uber, Tinder, Skype,...

McAfee announced on Monday that it has agreed to acquire cloud access security broker (CASB) Skyhigh Networks for an undisclosed amount.

The world's largest spam botnet, Necurs, is delivering a new version of the Scarab ransomware. The campaign started at 07:30 UTC on Thanksgiving Day....

The chairpersons of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee and the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Monday sent a new letter...

There is little doubt that fear sells security products, hikes law enforcements agency (LEA) budgets and sells newspapers. Both the security industry and government...

A new phishing campaign delivering the Jsocket variant of Adwind (also known as AlienSpy) was detected in October, and is ongoing. Adwind and its...

Mountain View, Calif-based cyber insurance firm At-Bay has emerged from stealth with a mission to shake up the status quo in cyber insurance. It...

The NSA and CIA exploit leaks have thrown the spotlight on US government stockpiles of 0-day exploits -- and possibly led to this week's...

A new report from the Ponemon Institute confirms, but quantifies, what most people know: protecting endpoints is becoming more difficult, more complex and more...

Two major financial services and regulated industry compliance firms, Smarsh and Actiance, have combined to better serve industry's increasingly complex requirements around communications, archiving...