Kevin Townsend

The blockchain promise took a step closer to fruition today with IBM and SecureKey making a joint announcement of a blockchain-based digital identity network....

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's US-CERT has issued a new alert warning about problems with some HTTPS inspection products.

The Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA) today informed users of a breach that may have affected up to 43,000 customers.

In 2016, 40% of all web traffic originated from bots -- and half of that came from bad bots. A bot is simply a...

U.S. Government Indicts Four Over 2014 Yahoo Hack, Including Two Russian FSB Officers

The UK's National Cyber Security Center (NCSC, part of GCHQ) has written to the British political parties to warn about "the potential for hostile...

Multiple Vulnerabilities in dnaLIMS Disclosed After Vendor Failed to Engage with Security Researchers

Verifone is investigating a breach that it has described as "a limited cyber intrusion" into its corporate network." It believes that "that due to...

Tachyon Takes on Tanium With Promise to Go From Detection to Remediation Across the Entire IT Estate in Seconds

[Update] The Western Digital My Cloud range of storage devices, ranging from consumer products with up to 16TB storage (My Cloud Mirror) to business...

In February 2017, endpoint protection firm CrowdStrike took the unusual step of suing independent product testing organization NSS Labs, "to hold it accountable for...

Researchers Discover New Non-Malware Obfuscated Targeted Attack

The New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) 'first-in-the-nation' cybersecurity regulation for the financial services industry is, as of 1 March 2017, operational...

New Dridex 4 Banking Malware With AtomBombing Code Injection is Expected to be Used Against U.S. Banks 

Billions of dollars are spent every year on cyber security products; and yet those products continually fail to protect businesses. Thousands of reports analyze...

Healthcare is a consistent target for cybercriminals, with IBM's 2016 Cyber Security Intelligence Index claiming it had become the single most attacked industry. Today...