When it comes to cybersecurity, universities are faced with double goals: they struggle to protect their valuable intellectual property, as well as the personally identifying information of their students, faculty and staff. A recent cybersecurity depl…

The internet pioneer and chief evangelist for Google has been calling on the industry to get the next billion people connected worldwide, with ideas that range from low-orbiting satellites to cover rural areas to connectivity delivered by giant balloon…

Following the Snowden leaks revealing Bullrun – the NSA program to crack the world’s encryption – there is an emerging consensus that users can no longer automatically trust any security.

Clearswift, an information governance (or data loss prevention) specialist, has announced the acquisition of the intellectual property rights of Australian firm Jedda Systems – and CEO Heath Davies says ‘watch this space’ for more acquisitions.

Marking one of the first efforts by mobility specialists to get involved in the Fast IDentity Online (FIDO) Alliance, the industry consortium revolutionizing online authentication with the first standards-based specifications, BlackBerry has joined the…

Given the effort taken by the NSA and GCHQ spy agencies to monitor the greater part of the world’s internet traffic, it was never likely that they would simply ignore all of the encrypted traffic. The latest of the Edward Snowden files show that they d…

The Hand of Thief (HoT) trojan made waves when it hit the Russian cybercrime underground in July, claiming to target all Linux distributions. But the commercial malware is more like a commercial nowhere: it turns out, the hand is easily amputated.

Crowdsourcing is big. Bug bounties are big. Why not put them together? San Francisco/Australia-based startup Bugcrowd says why not indeed.

The arrest and trial of Barret Brown, activist and one time self-styled voice of Anonymous, concerns activists and media alike: in theory he faces 100 years in jail for hiding his computer, threatening an FBI agent, and publishing an internet link.

WikiLeaks has published its latest tranche of files, which it calls Spy Files #3, on the global covert surveillance industry: 249 documents from 92 intelligence contractors. The purpose is to shine “a light on the secretive mass surveillance industry.”…