As government officials continue to plea the case against strong encryption, a group of high-profile international security experts have published a paper arguing that allowing government agents special access to communications would have detrimental effects on personal privacy, enterprise security, and our national economy.
Maria Korolov | 10 Jul | Read more
The relatively new field of cyber insurance offers a potentially valuable shield from the financial toll that a data breach can visit on a company, but that market is held back by a lack of information about the threat landscape and a culture in many firms that too often marginalizes cyber issues, a senior government official warns.
Kenneth Corbin | 19 Mar | Read more
Cyber criminals are always looking for vulnerabilities, and in this case, it's parental instinct. A new phishing scam is disguised as an alert to child sexual predators.
Tony Bradley | 07 Feb | Read more
A new strain of ransomware, OphionLocker, generates a unique hardware identifier for each new infected machine so that it can avoid hitting the same victim twice, according to new research from KnowBe4, a Florida-based security awareness training firm.
Maria Korolov | 18 Dec | Read more
Under-pressure BlackBerry is fighting back, announcing a tie-up with Samsung that will bring the firm's BlackBerry Enterprise Service 12 (BES 12) security to Android handsets running the South Korean vendor's Knox containerisation system.
John E. Dunn | 15 Nov | Read more
As part of the NSA's program to certify commercial off-the-shelf technology for use inside the agency, mobile devices from Samsung and Boeing have been cleared for use by NSA employees.
By Dirk A. D. Smith | 10 Feb | Read more
Google will provide enterprise-focused security and management features to its entire Android showcase of mobile devices, including features reserved only for Samsung devices running Samsung security software called Knox, a Google executive announced during the Google I/O keynote address Wednesday.
Matt Hamblen | 26 Jun | Read more
There is a raging war in cyberspace. Hackers launch attacks for various objectives: hacktivism, extortion, fraud, or espionage. Targets may be random or targeted. It's only a matter of when one will fall victim to an attack
Angel S. Averia Jr. | 21 Nov | Read more