Kevin Townsend

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...

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