As quantum computers inch closer to reality, experts are sweating over their potential to render many of today's cybersecurity technologies useless.
Katherine Noyes | 08 Sep | Read more
Big data is best known for its volume, variety and velocity -- collectively referred to as the "3 Vs" -- and all three of those traits make security an elusive goal. Targeting companies grappling with that challenge, the Cloud Security Alliance on Friday released a new report offering 100 best practices.
Katherine Noyes | 27 Aug | Read more
Companies today are awash in data, but current tools and processes are not enabling them to keep it secure. That's according to Informatica CEO Anil Chakravarthy, whose says his company is embarking on a major push to go further into data security.
Katherine Noyes | 26 Aug | Read more
A flaw in the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) used by Linux since late 2012 poses a serious threat to internet users, whether or not they use Linux directly.
Katherine Noyes | 11 Aug | Read more
If you've ever downloaded software, chances are you've experienced an all-too-common surprise: ads or other unwanted programs that tagged along for the ride, only to pop up on your PC uninvited. Turns out there's a highly lucrative global industry making it happen, with "layers of deniability" to protect those involved.
Katherine Noyes | 09 Aug | Read more
A group of privacy advocates and internet providers has filed a new challenge to the UK government's use of bulk hacking abroad.
Katherine Noyes | 06 Aug | Read more
Privacy-minded people have long relied on Tor for anonymity online, but a new system from MIT promises better protection and faster performance.
Katherine Noyes | 16 Jul | Read more
The bad news is that data breaches are becoming ever more common. The worse news is that the cost they represent for companies is going through the roof.
Katherine Noyes | 15 Jun | Read more
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, as the old saying goes, and that's just as true in cybersecurity as it is in health. So believes Cylance, a startup that uses AI to detect and prevent cyberattacks.
Katherine Noyes | 09 Jun | Read more
The notion of online privacy has been greatly diminished in recent years, and just this week two new studies confirm what to many minds is already a dismal picture.
Katherine Noyes | 19 May | Read more
Hold Security made quite a splash in the security world on Wednesday when it claimed to have recovered 272 million stolen email credentials from a much larger trove, but on Friday the email provider most strongly affected called the report a simple effort to create media hype.
Katherine Noyes | 07 May | Read more
Tens of millions of stolen credentials for Gmail, Microsoft and Yahoo email accounts are being shared online by a young Russian hacker known as "the Collector" as part of a supposed larger trove of 1.17 billion records.
Katherine Noyes | 05 May | Read more
It's no secret that quantum computers could render many of today's encryption methods useless, and now the National Institute of Standards and Technology wants the public to help it head off that threat.
Katherine Noyes | 04 May | Read more
Neither humans nor AI has proven overwhelmingly successful at maintaining cybersecurity on their own, so why not see what happens when you combine the two?
Katherine Noyes | 19 Apr | Read more
More than 2,000 machines at schools and other organizations contain a backdoor in unpatched versions of Red Hat's JBoss enterprise application server software and are ready to be infected by ransomware.
Katherine Noyes | 16 Apr | Read more