BitPay loses $1.8m in phishing attack
September 17, 2015 - BitPay lost $1.8 million in a phishing attack late last year, according to lawsuit filed by the bitcoin payment processing firm against an insurer it is trying to get to cover some of the losses.
Information sharing key to cybersecurity - Sifma
September 17, 2015 - SIFMA today released the following statement from Kenneth E. Bentsen, Jr., president and CEO, upon completion of SIFMA's Quantum Dawn 3 cybersecurity exercise.
Judge paves way for banks to sue Target over data breach
September 16, 2015 - A US judge has given a group of banks the go-ahead for a class action lawsuit against Target over the massive 2013 data breach at the US retail chain.
Russian national admits role in world's largest data breach
September 16, 2015 - A Russian national today admitted his role in a worldwide hacking and data breach scheme that targeted major corporate networks, compromised more than 160 million credit card numbers and resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars in losses – the largest such scheme ever prosecuted in the United States.
US insurer warns 10 million records breached in two-year cyberattack
September 11, 2015 - US insurance group Excellus Blue Cross and Blue Shield has warned that up to 10 million customer records may have been compromised during the course of a two-year cyberattack on its computer systems.
Bitcoin DDOS ransom hackers target banks
September 10, 2015 - Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the global leader in content delivery network (CDN) services, published today, through the company's Prolexic Security Engineering & Research Team (PLXsert), a new cybersecurity case study.
Gemalto breach index shows 246 million records compromised in H1 2015
September 9, 2015 - Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO), the world leader in digital security, today released the findings of the Breach Level Index for the first six months of 2015, revealing that 888 data breaches occurred, compromising 246 million records worldwide.
Securities Commission Malaysia hones in on fintech innovation
September 4, 2015 - Securities Commission Malaysia is to draw key stakeholders together in a bid to create a stable ecosystem for the promotion of fintech innovation in the country.
