Facebook Security Breach Exposes 50 Million Users
Facebook, already facing scrutiny over how it handles the private information of its users, said on Friday that an attack on its computer network had exposed the personal information of nearly 50 million users.
Tesco Bank facing £30m fine over cyber breach
The UK's banking watchdog is threatening to charge Tesco Bank £30m for its failure to prevent a cyber attacks that affected thousands of customers in 2016.
Hackers steal $60m from Japanese crypto exchange
Security problems in the cryptocurrency market continue to mount after a Japanese digital currency exchange, Zaif, lost $60m to hackers.
Only 4 in 10 Tech Professionals Confident in Security of Their Organizations’ AI Deployments
Despite heightened interest in enterprise deployment of artificial intelligence, only 40 percent of respondents to ISACA’s second annual Digital Transformation Barometer express confidence that their organizations can accurately assess the security of systems based on AI and machine learning.
BA takedown linked to perpetrators of Ticketmaster breach
RiskIQ, the global leader in digital risk management, today revealed that its researchers traced the breach of 380,000 sets of payment information belonging to customers of British Airways to Magecart, the credit-card skimming group made infamous for its July breach of Ticketmaster.
British Airways data breach hits 380,000 cards
British Airways has been hacked, compromising the card details of hundreds of thousands of customers who used its website and app over a two-week period.
Alex Cruz, BA's boss says that the website suffered a "sophisticated, malicious criminal attack".
UK and EU banks plan early warning systems
Both UK and European banks are separately looking at projects to design an early warning system using market data to mitigate the threat of major misconduct or the beginning of the next financial crisis.
Cobalt cybergang starts up new campaign
The infamous Cobalt hacking group, responsible for hundreds of millions of dollars of damages to financial institutions, appears to be embarking on a new campaign.
According to researchers at security firm Netscout, the crooks have already targeted Russia's NS Bank and Romania's Patria Bank with their latest scam.
