Kevin Townsend

Truly random numbers are difficult to produce. The clue is in that very description: if it can be produced once, it can be reproduced....

Four years ago approximately 6.5 million LinkedIn passwords found their way on to a Russian password forum. The incident was a huge embarrassment for...

The focus of security is shifting from perimeter protection to network detection. Anti-virus at the perimeter is no longer enough, and the AV industry...

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's transformation of the company from a staid desktop sales company into a dynamic cloud subscription company has been remarkable. By...

Nobody likes to admit to a breach - but when the breach involves ransomware it cannot be denied for long. Visitors cannot access public-facing...

Hanoi-based Tien Phong Bank (TPBank) released a statement late on Sunday saying that it had interrupted the attempted theft of approximately $1.1 million via...

Google is planning to block Adobe Flash and implement an 'HTML5 by Default' policy on Chrome by the end of 2016. The intention is...

The attacks against the global banking system via SWIFT, which appear to be via a state-sponsored group, poses an important question: is such an...

At a financial conference in Frankfurt, Thursday, SWIFT's chief executive Gottfried Leibbrandt told the audience that the $81 million theft from the Bangladesh central...

Congress is tightening security by controlling its users' access to certain cloud services. This includes blocking Yahoo Mail and applications running on Google's appspot.com...

British businesses have a high awareness of cybersecurity risk, but do relatively little about it. This is one of the key findings of a...

Blame for the February cyber theft of $81 million dollars from the Bangladesh central bank New York reserves in February has been levelled at...

The hacker group that claimed responsibility for stealing and dumping 1.5 GB of data from the Qatar National Bank has now claimed responsibility for...

If an IoT device is basically an embedded device with some connectivity, then one of the earliest IoT devices is the smart card. The...

Jaku Botnet is an Active Botnet Operation Possibly Controlled by Darkhotel Threat Actors 

After acquiring security orchestration firm Invotas in February of this year, FireEye has announced the first product resulting from the union of the two...

Researchers discovered 'a young Russian hacker' bragging in an online forum that he had acquired and was ready to give away 1.17 billion stolen...

Trend Micro said that it recently analyzed a cyber attack that used a remote access Trojan (RAT) known as Lost Door." While Lost Door...