The venture arms of Microsoft and Qualcomm have invested in Team8, a two-year-old Israeli creator of cybersecurity startups, in an example of major U.S. corporations getting behind Israel’s expanding cybersecurity industry… Read More
The majority of social media users don’t realize hackers can attack them simply using the power of observation. People share personal photos on social media platforms all the time. You… Read More
GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump and his supporters are questioning whether the FBI could have sifted through 650,000 emails quickly enough to clear his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, just nine… Read More
DNS host Dyn is continuing to deal with issues caused by a series of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks Friday that knocked out service to major websites, including Amazon, Twitter,… Read More
The U.S. intelligence community is formally accusing the Russian government of playing a role in email hacks aimed at casting the Democratic Party in an embarrassing light and influencing the… Read More
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Whether you see him as a patriot or a traitor, it’s a big week for Edward Snowden, who was forced to seek asylum in Russia after revealing the magnitude of the… Read More
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The cybersecurity expert who hired Edward Snowden for his last job is laying out his lessons learned – but admits it would have been hard to stop the man who spilled some of the… Read More
[Spoiler Alert] This article and podcast involve technical plot points from Mr. Robot Season 2. If you haven’t watched it yet, check it out on USA Network, Amazon, or iTunes before… Read More
Cybersecurity represents a new field for Sean Feeney, but the recently appointed CEO of Seattle’s DefenseStorm, a cybersecurity firm specializing in protecting financial institutions, says he isn’t worried. “Cybersecurity is an… Read More
RADAR today announced that it has spun out of Portland-area cybersecurity incident response company ID Experts. The new company, also based in Portland, on Tuesday also announced a $6.2 million funding round. RADAR helps protect clients in… Read More
More than half (52 percent) of 2,200 cybersecurity professionals in a new survey say they think cloud applications are at least as secure as those running on a company’s in-house servers, according to… Read More
Cyberattacks have moved beyond the simple virus; now they exploit holes in security systems in ways that are nearly impossible to detect with traditional methods. But the U.S. Department of Defense… Read More
Amazon has reset an unknown number of customer passwords, citing possible security issues, according to a report from ZDNet. “A number of readers” of that tech news site said they… Read More
Microsoft announced a new facility on Tuesday that will serve as the company’s war room when things get a little hairy on the cybersecurity front. Just like President Barack Obama… Read More
Seattle-based cybersecurity startup SignalSense just raised $4.5 million, bolstering its efforts to curb a growing security problem facing organizations ranging from Costco to the U.S. government. The funding was led by by… Read More
Praesidio just raised more funding to help banks and credit unions manage their cybersecurity technology. The Seattle-based startup has reeled in a $3.1 million investment round that pushes total funding… Read More
A new feature in Windows 10 called WiFi Sense is drawing heat from some security experts who fear that it may compromise your network security, but the potential problems with the… Read More
Spoiler Alert: If you aren’t totally caught up on Mr. Robot, you may want to read this later. While this post spends more time talking about the show’s technology than the plot,… Read More
Google wants to stop successful password phishing attempts where many begin: In your web browser. Today, it released a free, open-source extension for its Chrome browser that warns users when… Read More
If you think you may have been affected by the cyberattack on Premera Blue Cross and haven’t yet heard from the insurer, now is the time to speak up. Monday,… Read More
President Obama will sign an executive order later today designed to improve sharing of cybersecurity threat information between the federal government and outside companies. It’s a part of the administration’s… Read More
Symantec announced today that it will be hiring 65 engineers and technical staff from Narus, a cybersecurity company and Boeing subsidiary, as a part of a partnership between the two… Read More