The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced the largest-ever award, approximately $279 million, to a whistleblower. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) paid a record sum of approximately $279 million to a whistleblower. The award was paid to a whistleblower whose information and assistance led to the successful enforcement of SEC an

Satellite broadcast organisation DISH experienced a major system issue over the past week which affected multiple services. Websites and channels were unavailable, logins were non-functional, and some folks couldn’t even pay their bills as a result of the downtime. There was a suspicion that something may have gone wrong behind the scenes. This suspici

A former Twitter executive has acted as a whistleblower and alleged some serious problems. Provided these accusations are true, the disclosure shows a side of Twitter that poses a threat to its own users' personal information, to company shareholders, to national security, and to democracy. Otherwise known as Mudge, Peiter Zatko is a network security expert,

Domain name registrar giant and hosting provider GoDaddy yesterday disclosed to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that it had suffered a security breach. In the notice, it explained it had been compromised via an “unauthorized third-party access to our Managed WordPress hosting environment.” The unknown culprit behind the attack sto

The US State Department and Secret Service offered $2 million in reward money for help capturing two Ukrainian SEC hackers. The US State Department and Secret Service offered $2 million in reward money for help capturing two Ukrainian hackers that have been charged with hacking and selling insider corporate data stolen from the Securities and Exchange Com

The top U.S. markets regulator SEC announced a security breach, accessed data might have been used by crooks for insider trading. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that cyber criminals had previously breached its database of corporate announcements in 2016 and likely they have used it for insider trading. On Wednesday, the SEC Chair

This post is authored by Robert Hayes, Senior Director and Chief Security Advisor in Microsoft’s Enterprise Cybersecurity Group. With the scale, scope, and complexity of cyber-attacks increasing by the week, cybersecurity is increasingly being seen as a primary issue for CEOs & Boards. Advice is not hard to find, and there are a multitude of information

The Dutch Police has seized two servers belonging to Switzerland-based Virtual Private Network (VPN) provider Perfect Privacy, as part of an investigation. Recently, two European countries, France and Germany, have declared war against encryption with an objective to force major technology companies to build encryption backdoors in their secure messaging se

Target officials say that the Securities and Exchange Commission, one of several U.S. agencies investigating the massive data breach at the company in 2013, has decided not to punish Target as a result of the breach.The Target data breach is one of the larger such incidents ever. The breach affected more than 100 million people and the attackers stole credit

Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 168 - October 8, 2014News, opinion, advice and research!Here's our latest security podcast, featuring Sophos experts and Naked Security writers Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin.(Audio player above not working? Download the MP3, or listen on Soundcloud.)In this episode of the Chet Chat [0'36"] BadUSB - now with Do-It-Yo