Expert analysis

A recent survey of 2,000 US individuals by Hide My Ass VPN showed some unnerving data: 63 percent of them have experienced online security issues, but only a little more than …

The popular and sometimes controversial Shodan search engine made some changes recently that drew attention mostly of the latter variety. If you are not familiar with Shodan, …

Google has announced that it is testing its new payment app, Hands Free, which (as the name suggests) allows users to make payments without the need to use their hands, mobile …

How do you manage your passwords? Do you set them all to approximately the same value, for fear of forgetting them? Or do you write them down in a little book, or in a …

Ever since businesses began to offer Wi-Fi access to customers, experts have warned that open hotspots are not secure. Open Wi-Fi hotspots don’t ask a user for a …

A couple of years late to the party, but I finally made it to San Francisco with a real sense of excitement to attend what was described to me as the “Super Bowl of the …

A hack on the Ukrainian power grid in late 2015 “blacked out more than 225,000 people,” according to Claims Journal, which described this type of attack as a …

RSA Conference has long been the place where security vendors announce new products and services, and industry trends are made. I was told by Centrify that recent breaches …

With greater awareness about the risks of unsecured privileged accounts allowing broad, anonymous access across the enterprise, privileged account security has become an …

With so many questions to be answered on the future of security and IoT, I’m happy to see that, once again, it’s that special time of the year when the collective movers and …

You are in charge of your organization’s security. Depending on how large and well resourced your business IT function is, your card might read IT director, CIO, CTO, or …

At this week’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, MasterCard announced it will accept selfie photographs and fingerprints as an alternative to passwords when verifying …