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The SEC has charged four companies—Unisys Corp, Avaya Holdings, Check Point Software, and Mimecast—for allegedly misleading investors about the impact of their breaches during the massive 2020...
Unisys, Avaya, Check Point, and Mimecast settled with the agency without admitting or denying wrongdoing Four high-profile tech companies reached an agreement with the Securities and Exchange...
Tax farming is the practice of licensing tax collection to private contractors. Used heavily in ancient Rome, it’s largely fallen out of practice because of the obvious conflict of interest...
SIM swappers strike again, warping cryptocurrency prices An Alabama man faces five years in prison for allegedly attempting to manipulate the price of Bitcoin by pwning the US Securities and...
Law enforcement agencies have arrested suspects involved in cyber attacks claimed by USDoD and Anonymous Sudan, as well as a person involved in the hacking of SEC’s X (Twitter) account. USDoD On...
An Alabama man was arrested today by the FBI for his suspected role in hacking the SEC's X account to make a fake announcement that Bitcoin ETFs were approved. [...]
The SEC concludes its investigation into Progress Software's handling of the widespread exploitation of a MOVEit Transfer zero-day flaw that exposed data of over 95 million people. [...]
A judge has mostly thrown out a lawsuit brought by America's financial watchdog that accused SolarWinds and its chief infosec officer of misleading investors about its computer security practices and the backdooring of its Orion product. In a Thursday ruling [PDF], US federal district Judge Paul Engelmayer dismissed all of the so-called "Post-SUNBURST" claims the SEC levied against SolarWinds.
A Panaseer investigation into organizations’ annual 10-K filings reported to the SEC shows that from January-May 2024, at least 1,327 filings mentioned NIST – a key indicator that cybersecurity...
In this Help Net Security video, Mark Millender, Senior Advisor of Global Executive Engagement at Tanium, discusses the overall sentiment from CISOs of large, public companies on the effectiveness and understanding of SEC's cyber disclosure rules and common misconceptions and gray areas to watch for. Learn what C-suite leaders can expect from the cyber disclosure rules in the next 6-12 months based on feedback, effectiveness, and guidance from industry peers.