Still living under the tyranny of the password in 2017

When  I lost access to my Google account  recently, it left a gaping hole in my digital life and showed me just how tenuous the link to o...

Twitter adds support for app-based two-factor authentication

Twitter is rolling out an update to its platform security that will allow users to employ third-part authentication apps to receive a two...

Twitter posts a new version of its rules with updated sections on abuse, spam, violence and more

Twitter today published a new version of its  rules , in an effort to further clarify its policies about abuse, spam, self-harm and other...

ForeScout Technologies prices IoT security IPO at $22

ForeScout Technologies, the Internet of Things security company, priced its security IPO at $22, the top of its proposed range. It also e...

Metapacket analyzes outbound network traffic to flag and block malware

Metapacket , one of YC’s current batch of startups, is hoping to get its SaaS on corporates’ list of essential threat detection software w...

How Frank Abagnale thinks like a con artist to improve security

Frank Abagnale, Jr’s ignominious youth as a clever con artist was made famous in the 2002 movie, Catch Me If You Can , starring Leonardo D...

Hacking the election

During what was likely the first presidential campaign fundraiser held at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, campaigners made...

EU Approach To Regulating Data Needs More Hope And Less Fear

From Britain’s railway mania of the 1840s to the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s,  innovative new technologies have routinely touched off...

Apple Addresses Privacy Questions About ‘Hey Siri’ And Live Photo Features

Though Apple has long been vocal about its stance on security and privacy, it has recently begun utilizing that stance as a sales tool. ...

Security Firm Sophos Raises $125M In UK IPO, Valuing It At $1.6B

As malicious hacks, data breaches and other forms of cyber crime continue to persist in our networked, Internet-connected world,  Sophos ,...

NSA Has Reverse-Engineered Popular Consumer Anti-Virus Software In Order To Track Users

The NSA and its British counterpart the GCHQ have put extensive effort into hacking popular security software products to “track users an...

Google’s Project Vault Is A Secure Computing Environment On A Micro SD Card, For Any Platform

Project Vault is a secure computer contained entirely on a micro SD sized device. Google’s ATAP said the micro SD format made sense becaus...