Kevin Townsend

Madison County, Indiana, was the victim of ransomware last week. There is no public information on what malware was used, how the authority was...

Little is currently known about how money was stolen from thousands of Tesco Bank current account (checking account) holders last weekend. It is clear...

A new survey and report shows strong faith but poor confidence in current data analytics. For example, 70% of respondents to the survey believe...

Tesco Bank, wholly owned by the UK's largest supermarket chain Tesco, has admitted the "some of its customers' current accounts have been subject to...

Cyber threat protection and intelligence firm FireEye this week launched new cloud-based network security and threat intelligence offerings amid improving finances.

Security analytics and testing firm Rapid7 this week unveiled Project Heisenberg Cloud, a research project designed to use the cloud to get a closer...

McAfee Prepares for Independence from Intel with Product Announcements and New Branding

A new report highlights the high number of users still operating outdated Windows operating systems and unsupported browsers. This represents a huge threat to...

A new survey published by Accenture shows that the twin security conundrums of increasing security breaches despite increased security spending, and high security confidence...

Symantec Unveils Symantec Endpoint Protection 14 With Multi-Layered Protection

PCI DSS version 3.1 will be retired on October 31, 2016, with version 3.2 being the only valid version beginning the 1st of November....

Potentially Unwanted Programs Put Enterprise Data at Risk. How do You Tell Good Apps from Bad Apps?

Researchers have discovered a code-injection vulnerability in the Windows operating system that cannot, because of the nature of the operating system, be patched. It...

European data protection regulators have written to both WhatsApp and Yahoo. With Yahoo concerns center around the breach and theft of 500 million user...

Industrial cybersecurity firm Nozomi Networks has raised $7.5 million in a Series A funding round, the company announced this week at SecurityWeek's 2016 ICS Cyber...

Blockchain is variously described as the future of computing or a hype bubble that has already burst, depending on which author you read.

Using weaponized Word documents as attachments to phishing emails is not a new attack method, but researchers have discovered an interesting variation: an RTF...

New Security Templates from Illumio Help Close Security Gaps Inside Data Centers and Clouds

Law enforcement agencies from 13 additional countries have signed up to the NoMoreRansom project since it started in July 2016. The project, launched as...

The U.S. Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) has awarded its $11.4 million Cyber-attack Automated Unconventional Sensor Environment (CAUSE) program to BAE Systems.