The SEC’s Cyber Unit Just Filed the First Charges Over ICO Scam A new division of the Securities and Exchange Commission dedicated to so-called “initial coin offerings” (ICOs) filed its first charges on Friday, targeting a scam that reportedly raised $15 million...
Google And Amazon Are Harming Consumers And Behaving Like Obnoxious Toddlers You might recall that a few years ago, Amazon began banning competing streaming hardware like Apple TV and Google’s Chromecast from the Amazon store because these products competed with...
Industrial firms fail to adopt basic security measures against hackers On Wednesday, US conglomerate Honeywell released new research into the state of security in the industrial sector. Titled, “Putting Industrial Cyber Security at the Top of the CEO Agenda,” an...
The US’s most secretive intelligence agency was embarrassingly robbed and mocked by hackers The National Security Agency, the US’s largest and most secretive intelligence agency, has been deeply infiltrated by anonymous hackers, as detailed in a New York Times...
Two U.S. lawmakers think the government has a new cybersecurity problem: The Internet of Things When hackers took aim at the internet’s backbone last year, impeding access to websites like Twitter and Spotify, they did so by weaponizing the Internet of Things — a...
