Security News > 2018 > August

Very Good Security (VGS) announced that it has raised $8.5 million via a Series A funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz. The funding will allow VGS to further scale its security product, which...

Instagram this week announced new features to boost account security and provide users with increased visibility into accounts with a large number of followers. read more

The term “security operations” is often interpreted to be synonymous with a security operations center (SOC). In fact, a web search on security operations results mostly in links to SOC content....

The attack allows snooping of data from environments that are highly secure or air-gapped using infrared signals from smart bulbs.

Interesting story of a CIA intelligence network in China that was exposed partly because of a computer-security failure: Although they used some of the same coding, the interim system and the main...

Small merchants continue to be a primary target for cybercriminals. According to the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, 61% of breached organizations surveyed were small businesses. These...

Slowly but surely, the Internet is on its way to being 100% encrypted. According Scott Helme’s latest analysis of the one million most visited websites according to Alexa, 51.8% are actively...

Individuals Report Organizations for Allegedly Failing to Secure Personal DataThree months after the EU's General Data Protection Regulation went into full effect, the U.K.'s data privacy watchdog...

Data centers are the lifeblood of the enterprise, allowing for scale never before imagined and access to critical information and applications. Businesses are increasingly migrating to the cloud,...

GDPR: it means give users their data when they ask for it, and Facebook's refusal to do so has provoked an inquiry by the Irish DPC.