India's finance minister Arun Jaitley announced plans to form a separate computer emergency response team, CERT-Fin, for the financial sector, in his union budget speech to the Indian parliament - a move that has drawn a mixed response from security experts
A suburban Dallas police department saw eight years' worth of digital evidence, including material for at least one active criminal case, frozen after a ransomware attack, another example of the continuing havoc caused by file-encrypting malware.
Australia wants to build a homegrown cybersecurity industry to lessen its dependence on foreign technology. The bright ideas that are generated domestically often end up commercialized by larger companies overseas, a top cybersecurity adviser says.
FS-ISAC is collaborating with the Monetary Authority of Singapore to establish the Asia Pacific Regional Intelligence and Analysis Center to encourage regional sharing and analysis of cybersecurity information within the financial services sector. Security experts weigh in on the value of the initiative.
Three Eastern European men have been sentenced to five years in prison for their roles in helping a criminal gang steal $2.7 million from First Commercial Bank ATMs in Taiwan. Europol says two others involved in the thefts have been arrested in cooperation with Belarus and Romanian authorities.
President Trump is reportedly preparing to issue an executive order calling for a review of the nation's cybersecurity capabilities and vulnerabilities. The pending report outlines a series of steps to be taken within 60 days of the signing of the order.
Russian authorities have reportedly arrested a top computer security official at the Federal Security Service as well as a head Kaspersky Lab investigator on treason charges, alleging that they received money from "foreign organizations."
Microsoft does not have to turn over emails stored outside the U.S. to federal authorities investigating a crime, an appeals court has affirmed. The closely watched case, which explored the territorial boundaries of U.S. law in the cloud computing age, could end up at the Supreme Court.
Yahoo's sale to Verizon will be delayed as the company continues to investigate two massive data breaches. But the search giant reported better-than-expected financial results and signaled that the Verizon deal is proceeding, which will likely calm investors.
Australia's federal government is planning to brief the country's political parties next month on cybersecurity threats, a move fueled by worries its electoral process could be targeted by a foreign power.
Lloyds Banking Group came under a distributed denial-of-service attack that hampered access to its online banking services for about two days earlier this month, several media outlets reported.
U.S. authorities are reportedly investigating whether Yahoo should have notified investors faster about two separate data breaches that it suffered in 2013 and 2014. Until last year, one breach remained undetected and the full severity of the other was not understood.
Western Union will pay $586 million to settle U.S. civil and criminal cases that alleged the company turned a blind eye for years to criminals who used its money transfer network to commit fraud.
The many companies in the Middle East that do business in Europe - and handle Europeans' data - now must comply with the European Union's new General Data Protection Regulation. And some security experts say that could lead to a boost in data security practices in the region.
Two Florida men have pleaded guilty to helping operate an unlicensed bitcoin exchange, Coin.mx, as a result of a wide-ranging government investigation into a massive scheme that involved hacking into multiple financial institutions, including JPMorgan Chase.
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