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US DOJ Charges British Man Over ‘Hack-to-Trade’ Scheme

A British man has been arrested and charged by U.S. authorities with hacking into the computers of five companies to obtain details about their expected earnings, and making $3.75 million of illegal profit by trading before results were released. The …

White House Warns of Hack of Microsoft’s Outlook Email Program

The White House on Sunday urged computer network operators to take further steps to gauge whether their systems were targeted amid a hack of Microsoft Corp.’s Outlook email program, saying a recent software patch still left serious vulnerabilities. “This is …

Business Email Attacks on the Rise; Office 365 Users Hardest Hit: Beazley

Attacks targeting business email accounts continued to climb in the second quarter. Hardest hit were organizations using Office 365, the popular cloud-based product, according to data released by specialty insurer Beazley. Email compromises accounted for 23 percent of incidents reported …