Cisco on Monday unveiled SecureX, a new cloud-native security platform that aims to give businesses better visibility across their security portfolio via analytics and workflow automation.  Cisco said SecureX will unify visibility into a company’s existing security products, including those from Cisco and third-party providers. The platform can analyze data across endpoints, cloud, network, and applications, allowing customers […] More

Special feature Cyberwar and the Future of Cybersecurity Today’s security threats have expanded in scope and seriousness. There can now be millions — or even billions — of dollars at risk when information security isn’t handled properly. Read More Iranian government-backed hackers are back at it, targeting US federal workers in the hopes of compromising […] More

Image: Department of Health As the Australian government pushed out its COVIDSafe tracing app on Sunday, the Department of Health also released a privacy assessment [PDF] of the app. The report was prepared by law firm Maddocks and contains 19 recommendations, along with others that were made during the development of the app. Its authors […] More

Image: FBI The FBI received 467,361 internet and cyber-crime complaints in 2019, which the agency estimates have caused losses of more than $3.5 billion, the bureau wrote in its yearly internet crime report released today. The FBI said that almost half of the reported losses — an estimated $1.77 billion — came from reports of […] More

<!–> Jupiterimages/Getty Images It never ceases to amaze me what we tolerate as accepted online behavior by companies and websites. Case in point, tracking data within URLs. Click around the internet long enough and you’ll see a string of data, attached to the end of a URL that looks something like this: ?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=winter_sale Also: Best […] More