Kevin Townsend

Trustwave SpiderLabs has discovered a 0-day Windows exploit being offered for sale on an underground forum for Russian speaking cyber criminals. Although the researchers...

ICS-CERT has released a security advisory for an ICS product used in the energy industry that cannot be patched, and there are publicly available...

The SANS CIS top twenty critical security controls (CSCs) is a living document reflecting world-wide expert opinion on the primary controls that can best...

The official Bangladesh government probe into the $81 million dollar theft via SWIFT in February has suggested the possibility of insider involvement. In February...

Carnegie Mellon University's CERT has issued a security advisory on the MEDHOST Perioperative Information Management System (PIMS), a system designed to streamline the progress from...

A new TorrentLocker campaign has been detected by Heimdal Security that is geographically focused on Sweden. And like earlier campaigns, this ransomware threat is delivered by...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced that Texas has entered into an Assurance of Voluntary Compliance agreement with PayPal over alleged privacy and security...

For all of last week and continuing into this week, major DNS and traffic management provider NS1 suffered a continuing and complex DDoS attack...

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Threat Intelligence Sharing Moves Center Stage for SWIFT

Think of Microsoft and you think of Satya Nadella. Think of Google and you think of, well, who? While Microsoft has a single guiding...

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...