An analysis of the record of the U.K.'s new prime minister, Theresa May, on cybersecurity and online privacy and a report on efforts to create an antidote to ransomware highlight this edition... Read more »
Banking Deregulation, New Breach Notification Rules Drive UptakeWhile many banks and merchants in Britain, France and Germany have long complied with the PCI Data Security Standard, deregulation has led organizations in other... Read more »
RBI Appoints Group to Study the Role the Technology Could PlayThe Reserve Bank of India is forming an expert committee to study the merits of using blockchain - the distributed ledger technology... Read more »
Key Vulnerability: Many ATMs Still Run Versions of Windows XPThe theft of $2.2 million from dozens of ATMs in Taiwan, executed using malicious software, defies a years-long effort by banks and software... Read more »
'Ranscam' Malware Pretends Bitcoin Ransom Will Recover Nuked FilesHow low will ransomware go? New malware - dubbed Ranscam - demands bitcoins to unlock files, but in reality they've already been deleted, researchers... Read more »
Hackbusters Team Will Battle Bank Hackers, SWIFT PromisesInterbank messaging service SWIFT will begin collecting and sharing anonymized attack information and offering incident-response services - backed by Fox-IT and BAE Systems - to... Read more »
New Tool Spots File Changes Then Halts RansomwareRansomware is devastating, and current security software doesn't do a great job of stopping it. But researchers say ransomware's behavior - quickly encrypting large volumes... Read more »