It’s time to get rid of parental controls and let younger people make their own decisions. Speaking in the opening keynotes at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, Wendy Nather, head of advisory CISOs, Duo Security at Cisco, said that

Speaking at the RSA Conference in San Francisco on how to build a comprehensive Internet of Things (IoT) security testing methodology, Rapid7 IoT research lead Deral Heiland said that it is currently hard to determine what IoT is, so he

How can the US deter other nations from executing cyber-attacks? According to a panel of US government officials speaking at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, there is a range of legal, diplomatic, and even military options that can be

Cyberattacks can impact individuals and companies in different ways, but few if any industries have the same life-or-death impact as medical devices. In recent years, medical devices and hospitals have come under increasing attack from different threat actors, which has

Australian Federal Police (AFP) could be given powers to cyber-spy and hack into online computer systems used by criminals based in Australia under a new proposal being considered by the country’s federal government. Suggested changes would allow the AFP to

The US Department of Defense announced yesterday that it has adopted a series of ethical principles regarding the use of artificial intelligence (AI). Designed to build on the US military’s existing ethics framework, which is based on the US Constitution,

New research into malware affecting mobile devices has found that stalkerware and adware posed the biggest threat to users in 2019. The annual “Mobile Malware Evolution” report, published yesterday by Kaspersky, shows a significant increase in the number of attacks

Nation states are actively attacking digital and internet-connected assets, but whether or not the US and other governments are doing enough to stop those attacks is a burning question that was debated in a session at the RSA Conference in

Registration opened for the National Cyber League (NCL) Spring Season this week. The NCL is a biannual cybersecurity competition for high school and college students aimed at training and mentoring the next generation of cybersecurity professionals. The NCL invites students

The head of London’s Metropolitan Police has fiercely defended her force’s use of live facial recognition (LFR) technology, arguing that privacy rights have changed in an age of social media and that some critics are “highly ill-informed.” Speaking at think

Trend Micro blocked over 52 billion unique cyber-threats in 2019, 61 million of which were ransomware, according to its annual roundup report. The security firm revealed that email remained by far the most popular threat vector, accounting for 91% of

A high-severity hardware vulnerability, dubbed Kr00k, in Wi-Fi chips manufactured by Broadcom and Cypress expose over a billion devices to hack. Cybersecurity researchers from ESET have discovered a new high-severity hardware vulnerability, dubbed Kr00k, that affects Wi-Fi chips manufactured by

Google Chrome issued an emergency patch to fix 3-high security vulnerabilities including a zero-day bug that actively exploited in wild. All the vulnerabilities are patched with Chrome version 80.0.3987.122 and the update is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux users.

In an era when data breaches can lead to corporate losses and ruin brand reputations, cybersecurity is no longer just an IT issue, it’s a board-level issue The question of what corporate boards should be doing and how governments can