In brief Canadian fast food chain Tim Hortons is settling multiple data privacy class-action lawsuits against it by offering something it knows it’s good for:

A Russian-language miscreant claims to have hacked their way into a managed service provider, and has asked for help monetizing what’s said to be access

The Feds have put up a $10 million reward for information about foreign interference in US elections in general, and more specifically a Russian oligarch

Threat groups are increasingly turning to InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) peer-to-peer data sites to host their phishing attacks because the decentralized nature of the sharing

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The popularity of stolen data bazaar BreachForums surged after it was used to sell a giant database of stolen information describing Chinese citizens, threat intelligence

The costs incurred by organizations suffering data losses continue to go up, and 60 percent of companies surveyed by IBM said they were passing them

The United States’ federal court system “faced an incredibly significant and sophisticated cyber security breach, one which has since had lingering impacts on the department

Authored by Dexter Shin McAfee’s Mobile Research Team has identified new malware on the Google Play Store. Most of them are disguising themselves as cleaner

JPMorgan Securities, UBS Financial Services, and TradeStation Securities aren’t doing enough to thwart crooks who want to steal customers’ identity, says America’s financial watchdog. The

Spain’s national police say they have arrested two former government workers suspected of breaking into the computer network of the country’s radioactivity alert system (RAR)

Google has brought its Street View service – which offers photographs of most locations on Google Maps – back to India, six years after the

FileWave has fixed a couple vulnerabilities in its endpoint management software that could allow a remote attacker to bypass authentication and take full control of

Google and internet rights groups have called on Congress to weigh in on spyware, asking for sanctions and increased enforcement against so-called legit surveillanceware makers.

The US is offering up to $10 million for information on members of state-sponsored North Korean threat groups, double the amount that the State Department

Apple’s internet traffic took an unwelcome detour through Russian networking equipment for about twelve hours between July 26 and July 27. In a write-up for

Amazon’s cloud platform is extending security capabilities for a couple of its widely used services; Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service

Microsoft has published an analysis of a Europe-based “private-sector offensive actor” with a view to helping its customers spot signs of attacks by money-hungry gangsters.