A major gap exists between the perception and reality of online security safety, according to Google Registry and The Harris Poll.

Here are 10 top takeaways from Intel's most recent class of Spectre-like speculative execution vulnerabilities, disclosed this week.

Companies promising the safe return of data sans ransom payment secretly pass Bitcoin to attackers and charge clients added fees.

Karen Roby highlights some of this weeks news coverage on TechRepublic and ZDNet. The stories include a security warning from Microsoft, a rundown of the Facebook privacy scandal and a look at the highest paying internships for 2019.

Microarchitectural Data Sampling are CPU side-channel vulnerabilities that allow attackers to view in-flight data from CPU-internal buffers. Learn more about MDS attacks in this comprehensive guide.

Staying up to date on Spectre and Meltdown can be challenging. This guide includes in-depth explanations about these uniquely dangerous security vulnerabilities and the best mitigation solutions.

A new bill introduced in the Senate this week would restrict U.S. tech exports to China and crack down on intellectual property theft.

Bet-the-company transformation that expands the attack surface requires close alignment and leadership across executive, IT and security teams.

Google is offering free replacements for its Titan Security Key after discovering a misconfiguration in its pairing protocols.

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Unknown groups have started tampering with Web traffic encryption, causing the number of fingerprints for connections using Transport Layer Security to jump from 19,000 to 1.4 billion in less than a year.

Four newly discovered vulns from the speculative-execution family bring Meltdown-like threats to Intel's processors.

One year later, the EU mandate's biggest impact has been to focus more attention on data protection and privacy, security analysts say.