Security News > 2018 > September

A former NSA employee has been sentenced to five and a half years in prison for illegally taking a copy of highly classified documents and hacking tools to his home computer between 2010 and 2015,...

New data breach notification laws are good news for consumers, better news for attorneys, but not very good news for businesses already struggling to stay on top of a constantly evolving...

Crowdfense officially launched the Vulnerability Research Hub out of beta. After being internally developed and fine-tuned for several months, Crowdfense opened their process-oriented platform to...

I’ve gotten really good at listing really depressing and disheartening stats over the years. It’s not what I want to be good at, but I’ve found that it’s necessary to help people understand that...

Alert Logic released its latest cybersecurity analysis, “Critical Watch Report: The State of Threat Detection 2018,” which shows attackers are gaining vastly greater scale through new techniques...

After documenting improvements in Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance over the past six years (2010 – 2016), Verizon’s 2018 Payment Security Report (PSR) now reveals...

McAfee released its McAfee Labs Threats Report September 2018, examining the growth and trends of new cyber threats in Q2 2018. In the second quarter, they saw the surge in cryptomining malware...

Siemplify revealed new machine learning capabilities in its security operations platform. With this new version, security operations teams can expedite day-to-day workflow activities such as...

Optiv Security announced SecurePayment@Optiv, an integrated portfolio of services and technologies that enables organizations to move beyond basic Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI...

ExtraHop announced the availability of Reveal(x) for Microsoft Azure. With Reveal(x) for Microsoft Azure, enterprise security and cloud operations teams now have network traffic analysis (NTA)...