Attorneys general in over a dozen U.S. states announced on Thursday that they reached a $1 million settlement with Adobe Systems over the massive data breach suffered by the company in 2013.
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Sixth Individual Arrested in Connection with Coin.mx, Links to JPMorgan Hack
A Florida man is the latest person to be charged in connection with alleged illegal activities associated with coin.mx, a now defunct unlicensed bitcoin exchange. Riccardo Hill, a resident of Brandon, Florida was charged with conspiring to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business. He was released Thursday on a $75,000 bond following a court appearance in Manhattan.
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Digital Threat Monitoring Firm RiskIQ Raises $30 Million
RiskIQ, a company that helps detect digital threats stemming from areas such as the Web, malvertising and social media, announced that it has closed $30.5 million in a Series C funding round led by Georgian Partners.
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Capgemini Leaks Data of Recruitment Firm PageGroup
Job-related information belonging to hundreds of thousands of individuals was exposed online after Capgemini inadvertently made public a database of Michael Page, a brand of UK-based global recruitment company PageGroup.
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Governments Show Contradictory Attitude Towards Privacy and Data Protection
Governments across the world are showing a contradictory attitude towards privacy and data protection. On the one hand new legislation insists that business is minutely protective of personally identifiable information (PII), while at the same time PII must be more readily handed to law enforcement.
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Low-Bandwidth “BlackNurse” DDoS Attacks Can Disrupt Firewalls
Researchers warn that certain types of low bandwidth distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks can cause some widely used enterprise firewalls to enter a temporary DoS condition.
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Cyberspies Launch U.S. Attacks Hours After Trump Elected
Just hours after Donald Trump was elected president of the United States, researchers spotted a series of election-themed spear-phishing attacks aimed at think tanks and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the U.S.
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Avoiding the Insider Threat: How Not to Star in Snowden Part II
Hollywood sure knows how to maximize value. That’s why we have long strings of sequels, prequels and movie plot reuse that stretch across generations. “Star Wars,” “Rocky,” “A Nightmare on Elm Street” or “Harry Potter,” take your pick. Which makes me wonder how many sequels will we have to “Snowden”?
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Insurance Firm Directs Response in Madison County Ransomware Attack
Madison County, Indiana, was the victim of ransomware last week. There is no public information on what malware was used, how the authority was infected, nor how much was demanded by the attackers — but it does seem as if the ransom has been paid, and systems are now coming back on line.
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File-Encrypting Ransomware “Telecrypt” Abuses Telegram
A new file-encrypting ransomware dubbed by researchers “Telecrypt” abuses the instant messaging service Telegram for command and control (C&C) communications and to allow victims to send messages to the attackers.
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