Earlier this week we covered how John McAfee is re-launching a security business starting with an Android application that audits the permissions of apps you have installed on your smartphone.  That application is called Cognizant and will be freely available March 1st. In late 2013 he announced plans for a new company called Future Tense ...

FireEye – To anyone that doesn’t invest in them, follow security technology stories much or the big race between these guys, Cisco, Palo Alto Networks and a few others – a name like FireEye may sound like whatever is happening to Bob Costas lately.  All kidding aside FireEye is a big name in the industry, ...

Good Technology has put out the latest release of their Mobility Index Report.  Good Technology is a leader in the enterprise mobile market space and they’ve compiled this latest Q4 2013 report of statistics and data to illustrate some interesting facts regarding device activations and enterprise applications.  The findings reinforce a number of incoming trends ...

With Valentine’s Day upon us the last thing many people will think about is malware.  However if you look at how many people nowadays get together in the first place to actually celebrate this day, you may be able to see how the holiday could be a trigger for some cyber hijinks and not the ...

One of the biggest concerns to come out of our cybersecurity prediction series was topic of application security.  Rife with poor security practices, plenty of mal-intent actors out there and plain old insufficient architecture, it is pretty clear just how widespread this actually is.  Then you add in the amount of talent, tools and the ...

Matthew Prince, CEO of CloudFlare confirmed in an email Monday evening that the attack on the CloudFlare network that day was indeed massive.   Like 400 Gbps massive. Data reported since the email indicate that the scale of the massive NTP reflection attack indeed hit 400Gbps – a whopping number that is bigger than any ...

Now that the long running war with Intel is behind him, John McAfee feels like the best thing about it all is that he can finally put his name behind a security product again. The first of his projects is about to come together in a new product that launches on March 1st.  The product ...

A new cybersecurity tool launched from stealth mode today by ex-military intelligence agents offers a way to stop hacker operations in real time.  The founder’s name is Lior Div, and he is a recipient of Israel’s prestigious Medal of Honor for cybersecurity campaigns that he led within the famed 8200 unit.  The 8200 unit is ...

From the neat technology solving real problems file – Denver-based Dizzion announced this week that they are now delivering their cloud-enabled desktop service to the global customer care company TELUS International.  TELUS international has call center agents all over the world, so this is a great story that has enabled the company to have a ...

HP has released findings from its annual Cyber Risk Report this week, which takes a close look at the security landscape we’re up as we head deeper into 2014.  The stage is one where mobile and web applications have greatly expanded the attack surface.  Hackers have more open doors to attack nowadays.  This report pinpoints ...