The IRS cyberattacks may have affected more than 300,000 taxpayer accounts - and more than 600,000 breaches were attempted. Ken Westin, senior security analyst for Tripwire commented on the recent mas...

Ken Westin, senior security analyst for Tripwire has been noting the potential for this “Hammertoss” cyber espionage scenario for some time and was not surprised by the FireEye report that came o...

With the latest information from the inspector general that some emails that Hillary Clinton sent from her private server contained classified information but was not identified as classified. Ken...

Customers who hired the infamous ID theft-protection firm Lifelock to monitor their identities after their data was stolen in a breach were in for a surprise. It turns out Lifelock failed to properly...

Commenting on FTC news that LifeLock violated, a 2010 settlement with the agency and 35 state attorneys general by continuing to make deceptive claims about its identity theft protection services, and...

Brian Krebs reported that Adobe Systems Inc. said it plans to issue a patch to fix a zero-day vulnerability in its Flash Player software that is reportedly being exploited in active attacks. The flaw...

Commenting on reports that there has been a credit card breach at Donald Trump’s hotel properties, Ken Westin, senior security analyst for Tripwire, provided the following: Ken Westin, senior sec...

Toshiba is working on an unbreakable encryption solution that would create a one-time encryption key. The key for Toshiba’s quantum-cryptography system will be delivered as photons through a custo...

The F.B.I. is looking into the whether or not the Front Office for the St. Louis Cardinals hacked into the Houston Astros internal networks containing confidential information about their players....

The St. Louis Cardinals are facing an FBI and Justice Department inquiry in the hacking of the Houston Astros’ Network , Ken Westin, senior security analyst at Tripwire, provided the following comme...

Password manager developer, LastPass, just reported that their network has been breached and that account email addresses, password reminders, server per user salts, and authentication hashes were com...

In response to news Ken Westin from Tripwire commented on the latest hack of celebrity photos in which the hacker accessed more than 570 iCloud accounts. Ken Westin, senior security analyst with Trip...