Two Romanian nationals have been arrested over allegations that they were behind the hacking of the Washington D.C. closed-circuit television camera network that resulted in 70 percent of the network going offline in the week before the inauguration of President Donald Trump. The suspects, Mihai Alexandru Isvanca, 25, and Eveline Cismaru, 28, were arrested in Bucharest Dec. 15 on charges ...

South Korea has finally moved to crack down on bitcoin and cryptocurrency trading with a number of new rules that aim to restrict speculative trading. The country, one of the world’s largest in terms of bitcoin trading, first said that it would be considering new measures in October. Finance Minister Kim Dong-yeon told local media ...

Zachary Buchta, allegedly a founder of the infamous hacking group Lizard Squad, is facing two and a half years in jail after pleading guilty to hacking-related charges prior to Christmas. Twenty-year-old Buchta, from Maryland, was arrested in October 2016 along with another man, Bradley Han Willem Van Rooy of the Netherlands, on charges of “conspiring to cause damage to ...

Up to 1.13 million customers of Nissan Canada have had their personal details breached after hackers managed to steal data from Nissan Canada Finance and related company Infiniti Financial Services Canada. The hack, which occurred Dec. 11, involved personal information including customer names, addresses, vehicle make and model, vehicle identification number, credit score, loan amount and ...

Sergei Mavrodi, founder of the infamous Ponzi scheme MMM Global, is back with a dubious new offering following a 20-plus-year history of scams: an Ethereum blockchain-based cryptocurrency. Called Mavro, the cryptocurrency is set to launch Dec. 29 and will be a replacement for a previous coin Mavrodi launched in 2016. According to Russia Today, Mavrodi is ...

The price of bitcoin recovered in trading today as increased investor interest saw one exchange suffer trading delays once again. After a pre-Christmas slump that saw its price drop to as low as $11,000, investors returned to the market, driving the price back through $16,000 briefly before settling at $15,883.77 as of 8:30 p.m. EST. ...

Ancestry.com LLC is the latest company to expose confidential user data to the broader internet. A security researcher discovered a file containing usernames and passwords sitting on a server on Rootsweb.com, an Ancestry-owned family history site. The data included 300,000 email addresses/username and password combinations relating to RootsWeb users but also 7,000 Ancestry.com accounts, the company said Saturday. ...

Israel looks set to be the latest country to crack down on bitcoin. The country’s financial regulator said Monday it would move to ban companies based on bitcoin and other digital currencies from trading on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. The news came via Shmuel Hauser, chairman of the Israel Securities Authority, who reportedly told a ...

Node.js startup NodeSource Inc. today said it has raised $17.5 million in new funding in a Series B round that included Silicon Valley Bank, Industry Ventures, Crosslink Capital and RRE Ventures. Founded in 2014, NodeSource builds products focused on Node.js security and performance for enterprise users. The only commercial provider specializing in enterprise Node.js services, the company offers ...

Google LLC has removed three fake bitcoin wallets from its Play Store that had potentially stolen significant sums of cryptocurrency from its users. Discovered by researchers at mobile security firm Lookout Inc., the three wallets, part of the “PickBitPocket” mobile malware family, were all pretending to be legitimate bitcoin wallets. But instead of operating as ...