Kevin Townsend

Earlier this year a new ransomware, dubbed ONI, was discovered in Japan. It is described as a sub-species of the GlobeImposter ransomware. Researchers blogged...

IOActive has long been interested in the security of satellite communications. In 2014, it published a report on “multiple high risk vulnerabilities” in all...

Security analytics firm Skybox announced Wednesday that it has secured $150 million growth equity comprising $100 million from CVC Capital Partners’ Growth Fund (CVC...

The latest version of Symantec Endpoint Protection, SEP 14.1, adds new capabilities to the signatureless machine learning malware detection SEP product it introduced last...

Forty-seven percent of organizations have already deployed machine learning (ML) solutions, with another 23% engaged in pilot projects, to help detect increasingly sophisticated incursions...

Thirty percent of CEOs from the world's largest organizations have had their company email address and password stolen from a breached service.

Security awareness training and simulated phishing firm KnowBe4 has secured $30 million in Series B financing led by Goldman Sachs Growth Equity (GS Growth),...

The proposed European Union ePrivacy Regulation is on the verge of entering Trilogue. Trilogue is the series of informal discussions involving the European Parliament,...

The Department of Homeland Security and Federal Bureau of Investigation have issued a joint technical alert warning that government entities and organizations in the...

The growing acceptance that it is impossible to detect and block all malware at the perimeter requires some form of response to malware post-breach....

With growing concern over nation-state cyber attacks comes an increasing need to secure the critical infrastructure. In the Quadrennial Energy Review published in January...

Contracting giant Booz Allen is to acquire cybersecurity firm Morphick. Few details have been made public -- there is no statement on the price...

The acceptance and adoption of biometrics as a primary or second factor in multi-factor authentication has been considerably slower than expected. There are signs...

Europol Calls for a Solution to the IP Address Attribution Problems Caused by CGNs

World Will Watch the U.S. Government Vs Microsoft Played Out in the Supreme Court

RSA unveiled new products to help address challenges related to compliance with regulations like the European Union's GDPR.

San Francisco-based consulting firm AsTech has today announced a $1 million guarantee for its Qualys Managed Services offering. AsTech is one of a small...

Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC) is designed to stop phishing. One of the most phished domain names in the world is the...

The ransomware marketplace has grown by a phenomenal 2,502% from 2016 to 2017. This is the amount of money spent by criminals on ransomware...

President Trump issued a memorandum on Oct. 5 requiring the intelligence community to establish an inter-agency information sharing network. Agency heads are required to...