Kevin Townsend

Europol has announced that a total of 27 related arrests have been made since the ATM black box threat first emerged in 2015. Eleven...

Following the worldwide WannaCrypt ransomware attack that leveraged the EternalBlue exploit developed by and stolen from the NSA, Microsoft's chief legal officer called for...

Security Operations Teams Are Overwhelmed by Vulnerabilities and Volume of Threat Alerts, Study Finds

Financial services (finserv) is one of America's defined critical infrastructure sectors. The DHS summarizes, "The Financial Services Sector represents a vital component of our...

Identity Governance is Key to Improving Security and Compliance

APT32 is the "newest named advanced persistent threat group," according to a new report from FireEye. Published yesterday, the report shows it to be...

Microsoft Says WannaCry Ransomware Outbreak Should be a Wake Up Call for Governments

Baijiu is a newly detected stealthy threat that currently targets North Korea, and seems to have Chinese provenance. It is delivered by phishing, and...

AI, IoT and Fake News Highlighted as On-going Cyber Threats

The GootKit banking malware has joined the growing band of advanced financial trojans that have migrated from web-injections to redirection attacks.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is funding three smartphone digital identity and privacy projects including mobile device attribute verification, mobile authentication, and...

One thing is clear. The campaign of French President-elect Emmanuel Macron was hacked prior to the French presidential election this last Sunday -- and the finger...

Europe And Especially UK Are Now Major Originators of Cyber Attacks, Reports Show

Five months ago, Google launched its free OSS-Fuzz service with the purpose to help open source developers locate bugs in their code.

Details of the Intel AMT firmware vulnerability announced on May 1, 2017 are now public knowledge; and the suggestion that 'this is somewhere between...

Europol announced Thursday that it had assisted the Slovak NAKA crime unit in the arrest of a Slovak national believed to operate a small...

The European General Data Protection Regulation will be in force in just over 12 months: May 25, 2018. This is the date by which...

Interest in the internet of things (IoT) and the industrial internet of things (IIoT) continues to grow; but actual activity lags behind interest. Security...