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Currency Exchange Travelex Held Hostage by Ransomware Attack
2020-01-08 18:18

A ransomware attack has held London-based foreign currency exchange firm Travelex hostage since at least New Year's Day, the company confirmed Tuesday after more than a week of vague updates. Travelex is a London-based foreign exchange firm that has over 1,000 stores and 1,000 ATMs in major transit points across 26 countries.

GCHQ: A cyber-what-now? Rumours of our probe into London Stock Exchange 'cyberattack' have been greatly exaggerated
2020-01-06 16:30

GCHQ and its cyber-defence offshoot NCSC have both denied that they are investigating a cyber-attack on the London Stock Exchange, contrary to reports. "The incident," the newspaper claimed, "Which delayed the market open by more than an hour and a half and was the worst outage in eight years, immediately triggered government cyber alert systems, according to the people familiar with the matter."

GCHQ: A cyber-what-now? Rumours of our probe into London Stock Exchange 'cyberattack' have been greatly exaggerated
2020-01-06 16:30

GCHQ and its cyber-defence offshoot NCSC have both denied that they are investigating a cyber-attack on the London Stock Exchange, contrary to reports. "The incident," the newspaper claimed, "Which delayed the market open by more than an hour and a half and was the worst outage in eight years, immediately triggered government cyber alert systems, according to the people familiar with the matter."

Cryptocurrency exchange Poloniex issues password reset warning
2020-01-03 17:54

When is a password breach not a password breach? When is a password warning a hoax? The "Poloniex emails and passwords" announced on Twitter seem to have been from a previous, unknown breach, and the crooks were simply chancing their arm by guessing that at least some of the account names and password might also work on the Poloniex site.

Cyberattack Forces Currency Exchange Giant Travelex Offline
2020-01-03 17:30

Foreign currency exchange Travelex has taken its UK website and services offline after malware was found on its systems on New Year's Eve. Founded by Lloyd Dorfman, Travelex is headquartered in London and company provides international payments, currency exchange services, and prepaid credit cards for travelers.

Getting ready for the end of Basic Authentication in Exchange Web Services
2019-12-19 09:53

Prepare your applications and users for big changes on 13 October 2020.

Hackers Steal $49 Million in Ethereum From Upbit Exchange
2019-11-28 18:03

$158 Million Stolen So Far This Year From Cryptocurrency ExchangesSouth Korean cryptocurrency exchange Upbit says hackers have stolen $49 million worth of ethereum, in what is the year's seventh...

Hackers Steal $49 Million in Ethereum From Cryptocurrency Exchange Upbit
2019-11-27 12:53

South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Upbit today announced that hackers managed to steal $49 million in Ethereum. The crypto-coins were transferred from the Upbeat Ethereum Hot Wallet to an...

Databricks and AWS Data Exchange help customers find, subscribe to, and use third party data in the cloud
2019-11-18 00:00

Databricks, the leader in unified data analytics, announced API integration with AWS Data Exchange, a new service that makes it easy for millions of Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers to securely...

DemystData selected to help empower users on the Snowflake Data Exchange
2019-09-26 00:30

Snowflake, the data warehouse built for the cloud, announced DemystData has been selected to help empower users on the Snowflake Data Exchange. The partnership will enable DemystData to begin to...