Kevin Townsend

Existing threats escalated and new threats emerged in a turbulent 2016. Ransomware spiked, IoT-based DDoS threatened the internet, political subversion and sabotage grew, and...

As globalization and mobility both advance, organizations are turning to web-based unified communications systems as a means of improving collaboration and reducing costs. Fuze...

Nine-Year-Old Critical Vulnerability Affects Intel Active Management Technology

The need to maintain security over the supply chain has been confirmed by alerts issued at the end of last week by both IBM...

New malware able to spy on OSX users' internet traffic, including https traffic, has been found targeting European users. The malware was previously not...

The Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) is industry's go-to analysis of security incidents and successful breaches over the previous year. The latest report...

Security requires that confidential commercial data is protected; compliance requires the same for personal information. The difficulty for business is the sheer volume of...

The Cyber Shield Act is a legislative proposal designed to cut "to the core of critical infrastructure cyber defense." It is proposed by Senator...

Locky was the dominant ransomware in 2016, but was less active in the first quarter of 2017. Now the threat is back with a...

Tanium Accused of Exposing California Hospital’s Network in Sales Demos Without Client Permission

Google Details Its Implemenation of Tiered Access to Secure Devices for its Global Workforce

Bose Headphones Join the Internet of Spying Things

Psycho-Analytics Could Help Detect Future Malicious Behavior

Cyber criminals are re-using stolen passwords to access the accounts of third-party sellers on Amazon. They then change the bank account details and simply...

Video gaming retail company GameStop appears to have been breached, with an unknown number of customers' payment card details stolen. Those details are thought...

The City of Dallas, Texas, emergency alarm system was compromised by a hacker or hackers late Friday night. All 156 outside sirens, usually used...

Researchers have discovered a strange new ransomware called 'rensenWare'. Rather than demanding money for decryption, it requires the victim to score "over 0.2 billion" playing...

The European Parliament on Thursday adopted a resolution (PDF) strongly criticizing the EU-US Privacy Shield.