Last year, while the world focused on high-profile supply-chain attacks, another area came under siege: mobile applications. With over 200 billion downloads in 2020, mobile applications present a ...

Early in December 2021, the Catalan government suffered its worst distributed denial of service (DDoS) cyberattack ever. In the space of a few hours, attackers routed 350Gbps of data to the ...

Cybercrime means the future of international conflicts may be stealthier and quieter than battles of the past. State-sponsored cyberattacks can take out critical infrastructure facilities and cause ...

Vendors have spent 2021 advancing security everywhere from endpoint and identity to the cloud and web, debuting tools that respond to threats across the criminal underground, protect remote workers‘ ...

What was the top cyber story in 2021? How will the cyber industry remember this year? The headline answer clearly includes disruptive ransomware that, perhaps for the first time ever, seized global ...

The 2021 annual report by the Social Security Board of Trustees may provide the most compelling case for Social Security reform yet. A $3 trillion increase in the combined Social Security and ...

Cyber security was once again top of the agenda for IT leaders in 2021, with a barrage of news and analysis making it hard to separate the wheat from the chaff and the genuine insight from the ...

KrebsOnSecurity.com celebrates its 12th anniversary today! Maybe “celebrate” is too indelicate a word for a year wracked by the global pandemics of COVID-19 and ransomware. Especially since stories ...

As security threats mount, the cost of a data breach keeps growing, too. The average cost of a data breach is now $4.24 million—nearly 10% higher than it was before the pandemic, according to recent ...

Microsoft today pushed software updates to plug dozens of security holes in Windows and related products, including a vulnerability that is already being exploited in active attacks. Also, Apple has ...

Unsurprisingly, 2021 has seen no shortage of notable cybersecurity moments, so much so that it’s no mean feat to whittle the long list down to just a few stories that rocked (not just) the world of ...