Only one percent of consumers believe using a third-party mobile payment provider, such as Apple Pay or Google Wallet, is a safe way to pay for in-store purchases, reveals Tripwire, Inc. This past holiday season, One Poll and Dimensional Research conducted a consumer survey of over 2,011 consumers in the United States and UK. The survey’s findings...

In anticipation of the New Year, Tripwire recently published an article that surveyed some of the better-known data breaches that occurred in 2014. We now present Part 2 of our two-part series, “2014: The Year of the Breach.” Home Depot (September) – On September 18th, Home Depot acknowledged that it had suffered a data breach. The attackers...

British authorities have allegedly arrested another member of the hacker group ‘Lizard Squad.’ The Daily Dot recently broke the story after it received an email from Vinnie Omari, a 22-year-old member of the hacker group. “They took everything,” Omari explained in the email, which allegedly also contained an image of the British authorities’ search...

One of Tripwire's many strengths is our ability to collect security data and build meaning from it. Meanwhile, the rapidly emerging Internet of Things (IoT) poses some juicy problems to tackle in this regard. I recently came across an interesting article titled 4 Big Trends that Impact Industrial Automation and What To Do About Them, Part 1 of 2 by...