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,

Threatpost journalists Chris Brook and Brian Donohue discuss security and privacy at Google I/O conference, the IRS and Carefirst BlueCross BlueShield Data Breach, Sections 215 of the PATRIOT Act and

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

he 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

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

A group of academic security researchers remotely hacked and took control of a robot designed to perform telesurgery, according to the MIT Technology Review. Telesurgery — perhaps better known as remote

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

Tech giants Intel and IBM are seeking to hire Bitcoin experts, but their interest appears to be focussed on the service’s public ledger rather than the cryptocurrency itself

A new piece of ransomware has emerged and it’s going after a younger crowd by encrypting only those files on infected machines that relate to online game play

Windows 10 will offer users the ability to authenticate themselves with biometric identifiers rather than passwords

Samsung Pay is set to come out in South Korea and the U.S. this summer. The company isn’t saying much, but we tried to find out what we could about security on the platform

Brian Donohue and Chris Brook of Threatpost discuss Kaspersky Lab’s Security Analyst Summit, which took place last week in Cancun, Mexico

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.