StackPath, SECaaS Startup Emerges From Stealth: Raises $150 Million
StackPath, a Security-as-a-Service company headquartered in Dallas, Texas, launched today. The cybersecurity company also announced $180 million in funding led by private equity firm...
Ransomware Threat Steadily Escalating, Now One of the Most Dangerous Cyberthreats
Ransmomware has reached a new level of maturity and menace over the past 12 months, according to the Ransomware and Businesses 2016 report from...
Automakers Collaborate to Develop Cybersecurity Best Practices for Vehicles
Members of the Automotive Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Auto-ISAC) on Thursday released an overview of what they called “comprehensive Automotive Cybersecurity Best Practices,”...
Library of Congress Restored After Massive DDoS Attack
Officials confirmed Wednesday that the Library of Congress fended off what it called a “massive and sophisticated DNS assault” that resulted in the disruption...
HHS Updates HIPAA Guidance on Ransomware
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights has released new Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) guidance...
Symantec, Arm and Others Create New Protocol to Address Security of Connected Devices
Several leading technology security experts have collaborated to create the Open Trust Protocol (OTrP) to combine a secure architecture with trusted code management, using...
2016 Malware Levels Already Four Times Higher Than 2015 Totals
Over the past year, malware levels seemed to consistently double themselves every quarter, according to the latest report by security outfit AppRiver. In Q2,...
Researchers Get Grant From Dept. of Homeland Security to Improve Insider Threat Detection
Researchers at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) have received a $649,172 grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to strengthen...
FDIC Updates Cybersecurity Policies Following Data Breach – Insider Threat a Major Factor
FDIC Chairman Martin Gruenberg has said the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is updating cybersecurity policies after a 2015 data breach in which a...
Fiat Chrysler Will Pay Hackers to Find Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles has launched a bug bounty program aimed at attracting white-hat hackers to discover cybersecurity flaws in its products and connected services....