Kirk was executive editor for security and technology for Information Security Media Group. Reporting from Sydney, Australia, he created "The Ransomware Files" podcast, which tells the harrowing stories of IT pros who have fought back against ransomware.
Ricoh's Australia office has notified banks, government agencies, universities and many large businesses about a curious data breach that, in some cases, exposed login credentials for its multifunction devices.
An investigation into a single IP security camera has unfolded into yet another worrying finding in the land of the internet of things. Millions of IoT devices may have a remotely executable buffer overflow in an open-source code component, according to cybersecurity company Senrio.
What trait does a global cyberattack and a hurricane share? Both could cost insurers - and victims - dearly. In a new report, Lloyd's of London estimates that a major cloud services attack could trigger $53 billion in losses and cleanup costs.
A new report into the state of consumer routers by Carnegie Mellon researchers is unsparing in its criticism: It's a market of lemons, and virtually all of the test models had security problems. What's the solution?
Australia plans to introduce new laws by the end of the year that would compel technology companies to provide access to encrypted communications under legal orders. Tech companies are bristling.
Verizon has apologized to customers after a contractor failed to secure an Amazon Web Services S3 bucket, leading to the exposure of data relating to 6 million accounts. But it's unclear if Verizon plans to notify customers whose data and accounts might be at risk.
Travel industry giant Sabre said Wednesday an intruder using stolen account credentials for its widely used reservations software had access to payment card details and personal information over a seven-month period. But it declined to say how many people are affected.
The fraudster who is selling Australian Medicare numbers has clocked one more sale over the past day as the government and federal police try to figure out how its systems were illegally accessed.
By lowering the price of Windows, could Microsoft help stop the spread of mass ransomware worms? India seems to think so. But fresher versions of Windows won't be a cure-all.
Deducing intent from malware code is tricky, but computer security experts appear to agree that the latest wave of file-encrypting malware was never designed to make its creators rich. Instead, it's intended to destroy disks.
Is Petya worse than WannaCry? The second global outbreak of file-encrypting malware in as many months sees cyberattackers having designed potent, rapidly spreading malicious code far faster than organizations have been shoring up their defenses.
A Google security researcher has once again found a potentially devastating vulnerability in Microsoft's Malware Protection Engine, the core component of anti-malware systems that ship with every Windows computer and server.
Worried about the use of encryption by terrorists, Australia plans to lobby its key signal intelligence partners at a meeting in Canada for the creation of new legal powers that would allow access to scrambled communications. But Australia says it doesn't want backdoors. So what does it want?
The back story behind the ransom attack that led to the unauthorized early release of the Netflix series "Orange Is the New Black" is a cautionary tale in dealing with cyber extortionists such as The Dark Overlord.
Microsoft has sought to get in front of a brewing controversy over whether it unfairly disables third-party anti-virus products in Windows 10. The company is seeking to dampen charges that are reminiscent of its years-long legal tangles with global antitrust regulators.
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