Kevin Townsend

Just two months after Microsoft announced its Project Springfield code fuzzing service, Google has launched the beta of its own OSS-Fuzz. The purpose in...

Destructive Malware Hit Targets in Saudi Arabia Set to Wipe Disks on Nov 17.

Camelot, the company that runs the UK National Lottery, announced today that approximately 26,500 customer accounts had been fraudulently accessed. The activity was discovered...

Windows has long had a troubleshooting feature that can be used during installs: SHIFT+F10 brings up a command prompt. While this has many advantages,...

Machine Learning Will Improve The Probability of a Successful Attack

A ransomware attack that began on November 25 forced the San Francisco Municipal Transport Authority (SFMTA, or 'Muni') to progressively close ticketing machines and...

Google Warns Journalists and Activists About Recent State-Sponsored Attacks

FS-ISAC Announces New Initiative to Strengthen the Financial Services Critical Infrastructure

In the early days of the internet, communication was by email. Originally siloed by companies like Compuserve, AT&T and Sprint so that messages could...

BBC Watchdog (a consumer protection television program) is today airing a report on 'food fraud' against the UK-based Deliveroo service. Food is ordered via...

178 individuals have been arrested across Europe for money laundering activities. More specifically, the individuals were acting as money mules helping criminals move stolen...

On average, an enterprise now uses 1,427 cloud services. Seventy-one percent of these are enterprise services, with the remainder being consumer services. The average...

A new survey into the prevalence and effect of ransomware confirms many other surveys -- around half of all companies have now been affected...

The Department of Homeland Security recently published (PDF) its Strategic Principles for Securing the Internet of Things. It comprises six non-binding principles designed to...

After being put on administrative leave for threatening to assassinate president-elect Donald Trump, the CEO of a network security firm has resigned after what he...

Kaspersky Lab Accuses Microsoft of Aggressive Attitude Towards Endpoint Security Firms With Windows 10

Today's security consensus is that password-based authentication and access is insecure, and that some form of two- or multi-factor authentication is necessary. The simplest...

A Florida man is the latest person to be charged in connection with alleged illegal activities associated with coin.mx, a now defunct unlicensed bitcoin...

Governments across the world are showing a contradictory attitude towards privacy and data protection. On the one hand new legislation insists that business is...