Kevin Townsend

In 2016, 3.3 billion user credentials were spilled onto the internet, according to figures from Shape Security's Credential Spill Report.

Barts Health NHS Trust in London suffered an unspecified 'IT attack' on January 13. Initial reports suspected it was a ransomware attack; but this...

President-elect Donald Trump's transition team announced Thursday that former New York mayor Rudi Giuliani "will be sharing his expertise and insight as a trusted...

Google has launched a beta version of a new Cloud Key Management System (KMS) to supplement the existing Google-managed server-side encryption and customer-controlled on-premise...

Italian siblings Giulio Occhionero and Francesca Maria Occhionero have been arrested in Rome, charged with conducting a long-running cyber espionage campaign against leading Italian...

E-Sports Entertainment Association (ESEA) Becomes the Latest Data Breach Victim With Data of 1.5 Million Users Stolen

Following the Intelligence Community report blaming Russia for both the Democratic National Committee hack in 2016, and for attempting to influence the presidential election...

Adopting a cyber security framework provides clear benefits that increase over time; but for most organizations, framework adoption requires overcoming a range of both...

Employees often feel they have a stake in information they help to create. When they leave an employment they sometimes believe they have at...

New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) has published its revised proposal for what it calls a 'first-in-the-nation cybersecurity regulation' for New York...

New Leet Botnet Shows IoT Device Security Regulation May Become Necessary

Following a successful analysis of the domain generation algorithm used by the Tofsee botnet, the Swiss domain registry (SWITCH) has temporarily suspended around 520...

Severe non-malware attacks and ransomware are the two stand-out malicious behaviors of 2016. When combined, as they have been with the PowerWare extortion, the...

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), the highest constitutional court of the EU, has effectively slapped down the UK's new Investigatory...

The Wassenaar Arrangement is a multilateral export control regime designed to prevent the trans-national proliferation of weapons. There are 41 participating states, including 26...

Twenty Organizations Were Analyzed in a Recent Study; All 20 Were Already Unknowingly Compromised

After seeing its stock price decline significantly over the past year, along with a major executive leadership change, FireEye has unveiled a series of...

A 'mere' 10.8% phishing success rate has forced Los Angeles County to notify approximately 756,000 individuals that their personal information may have been compromised....