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“A lot of attacks from Western countries go through China,” says Bruce Schneier

“We're in the early years of a cyber arms race,” adds Schneier

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It’s Business Time: Okta Unveils Inaugural “Businesses @ Work” Report

An In-Depth Look at How We Get Work Done – Exploring Application, Mobile and Security Preferences Across Businesses, People and GeographiesLONDON – August 20, 2015 – Okta, the leading identity and...

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AlienVault Raises $52M to Grow Its Security Business

Open-source efforts will remain at AlienVault's core as it moves forward with its vision of bringing unified security management technology to more companies. Privately held security vendor AlienVault...

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Top 10 Common Application Attacks to Avoid

Today, more and more application development processes are moving onto the Web. In fact, entire productivity suites, including Google Drive, email, storage, digital credit cards, photos and more are...

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Mobile Device Security Ignored by Federal Workers

Almost a quarter (24 percent) of federal employees send work documents to personal email accounts, and half use their personal devices for work email. Not only are federal employees using personal...

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U.S. Court Affirms FTC Authority to Enforce Data Breach Rules

NEWS ANALYSIS: The Philadelphia-based U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals finds that the Federal Trade Commission can sue Wyndham Hotels for lax security practices that led to a data breach. In a...

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Watchful Software Introduces Global Thought Leadership Program

Executive cyberstrategy sessions unite senior executives globally in addressing evolving cyber threat vectorsMedford, NJ, August 25, 2015 - Watchful Software, a leading provider of data-centric...

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Passwords Seen as an Outdated Security Measure

A whopping 84 percent of respondents to a LaunchKey survey support eliminating passwords all together—75 percent said they forget passwords or have to write them down. Password-based authentication is...

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Toronto Police Hunt for Hackers Who Hit Ashley Madison Site

A multinational law enforcement investigation is now under way to bring the Ashley Madison hackers to justice. In a welcome turn of events, the Toronto Police Service announced in a press conference on...

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Most Millennials Expect Loss, Theft of Personal Data, Survey Shows

A survey of millennials in the U.S. and UK shows they strongly doubt that online services will adequately protect their data, but also it reveals this generation has its own poor security habits. A...

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How the DDoS Attack Landscape Continues to Shift

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks continue to grow in frequency, while attack bandwidth size is declining, according to Akamai's second-quarter state-of-the-Internet security report. Among...

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HackerOne Co-Founder Details the Value of Bug Bounty Programs

VIDEO: Alex Rice, co-founder and CTO of HackerOne, discusses the benefits of bug bounty programs and why organizations can never buy every software bug. In recent years, it has become increasingly...

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Android Certifi-gate Flaw Still a Risk, Despite Few Victims

The flaw, which was first reported at the Black Hat USA conference in early August, could enable an attacker to take over an Android device. At the Black Hat USA security conference on Aug. 6, security...

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Matrix42 Launches New Package Manager for Microsoft SCCM and Empirum

Easy access to ready-to-use software packages from the cloudLondon, 27 Aug 2015 – Matrix42 (www.matrix42.com), a top provider of software for workspace management, has announced the latest release of...

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Wick Hill Appointed Distributor For Avecto

Moving beyond antivirus and firewalls to next generation security Woking, Surrey: Thursday, 27th August 2015 - Wick Hill announced today that it has been appointed UK VAD for award-winning, endpoint...

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Thoma Bravo Invests in Security Firm DigiCert

The private equity firm takes a majority interest in leading SSL/TLS certificate authority vendor DigiCert. Private equity firm Thoma Bravo is once again wading into the security arena, this time...

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Hundreds of thousands of HSBC customers unpaid due to IT glitch

Bacs glitch raises prospect of a cash-strapped bank holiday for those affected

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Ashley Madison CEO Resignation a Deserved Fate for Security Blindness

NEWS ANALYSIS: There appears to be a type of blindness among C-level executives in some companies that makes it impossible for them to anticipate the inevitable consequences of ignoring security....

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Security Experts Debate Whether Anti-phishing Training Worth the Cost

The debate over whether it’s pointless to train employees to recognize social engineering got louder after a Ponemon Institute survey suggests anti-phishing training saves money. Many network...

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Uber Hires Jeep Hackers to Improve Automobile Security

NEWS ANALYSIS: Two of the most (in)famous hackers in the world have a new job—thanks to their hack a Chrysler Jeep that led to the recall of 1.4 million vehicles. In the world of security research,...

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