Brian Donohue

Local governments and law enforcement are becoming increasingly more reliant on networked surveillance cameras in order to monitor densely populated urban areas. London is a notorious example of urban surveillance,

Much has been said about the VENOM vulnerability, the latest in an increasingly long line of bugs affecting vast swaths of the Internet. It’s an old-school bug of the relatively new-age

The Chinese-language Naikon advanced persistent threat group is targeting military, government and civil organizations located in and around the South China Sea, which is an increasingly contentious hot-bed of territorial disputes between

In yet another example of smart medical device insecurity, it has emerged recently that a line of Hospira drug pumps are exposed to a series of remotely exploitable vulnerabilities that could

SAN FRANCISCO — It’s an utterly played out platitude that the security industry is largely failing at its mission to protect computers and networks and all the nearly infinite data

Threatpost reporters Chris Brook and Brian Donohue discuss recent security headlines, including a contentious new Executive Order, the Dyre banking scheme, Github’s distributed denial of service troubles, the sale of

Photographer Curtis Wallen’s latest exhibit, “Proposition For An On Demand Clandestine  Communication Network,” opened in a Brooklyn art-house Sunday. The work explored what it would take for a normal person to

The latest in a long line of whistleblower Edward Snowden’s National Security Agency revelations may be among the most shocking: that the NSA and its British counterpart, GCHQ, allegedly compromised

Threatpost reporters Chris Brook and Brian Donohue revisit last week’s Security Analyst Summit, an event put on by Kaspersky Lab in Cancun, Mexico. Talks of interest include the Kaspersky Lab

Kaspersky Lab researchers uncovered Desert Falcons, the first exclusively Arabic APT group, presenting their findings at the Security Analyst Summit in Cancun.

Buried in Samsung’s terms of service is the admission that spoken words are picked up and passed along to third parties by voice recognition.

In this talk security podcast, Chris Brook and Brian Donohue discuss the upcoming Security Analyst Summit, Flash zero days, the Ghost vulnerability and the Anthem breach

WhatsApp has finally released a Web version of its popular mobile messaging service. We take a look at it from the security perspective.

New version of CTB-Locker, a ransomware that uses Tor and Bitcoin to evade detection and takedowns, should be avoided at all costs.

Researcher discovers that Progressive Snapshot tools lack any real security controls and could be exploited by attackers to hack cars.

Security reporters Brian Donohue and Chris Brook discuss security and privacy headlines from the first few weeks of the new year.

Comparing the worst passwords of 2014 with the infamous top 50 passwords from the Gawker Media breach in 2010.

Blackhat was finally released in theaters and its strongest aspect is its technological portrayal of hacking.

A researcher has developed a nasty bootkit capable of taking complete control of Mac OS X devices. Here is what you need to know.

For the second time in three years, Sony is the main character in a massive and humiliating cyberattack.

A new variant of the Zeus banking trojan has emerged, targeting consumer accounts at 150 banks in 15 countries.