security & fraud

Wells Fargo Launches New Marketing Campaign Aimed At Rebuilding Trust

Wells Fargo Launches New Marketing Campaign Aimed At Rebuilding Trust
Wells Fargo Launches New Marketing Campaign Aimed At Rebuilding Trust
May 08, 2018  |  Banking

Wells Fargo announced Monday (May 7) that it has launched a new marketing campaign, dubbed “Re-Established,” which focuses on its commitment to rebuilding stakeholder trust following...

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Wells Fargo Settles Sales Scandal Lawsuit; To Pay $480M
Wells Fargo Settles Sales Scandal Lawsuit; To Pay $480M
May 07, 2018  |  Legal & Regulation

Wells Fargo announced late last week that it has agreed to pay $480 million to settle a securities fraud class-action suit. Get the Full Story Complete the...

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Wells Fargo Beefing Up Investment Banking Unit With New Hires
Wells Fargo Beefing Up Investment Banking Unit With New Hires
May 07, 2018  |  Banking

Wells Fargo’s investment bank unit is in hiring mode, reportedly gearing up to hire hundreds of new employees — including around twenty managing directors. Get...

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Ripple Gets Hit With Lawsuit Over XRP Tokens
Ripple Gets Hit With Lawsuit Over XRP Tokens
May 07, 2018  |  Legal & Regulation

Ripple Labs, the cryptocurrency startup behind the XRP tokens, is being accused in a new lawsuit of running a scam to raise hundreds of millions...

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Facebook Fires An Engineer For Boasting About His Data Access
Facebook Fires An Engineer For Boasting About His Data Access
May 03, 2018  |  Facebook / Meta

Facebook, reeling from a data scandal with Cambridge Analytica, fired an employee Thursday (May 3) for boasting that he can access the data of its...

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Kaspersky Lab Sees Rise In Botnet Activity
Kaspersky Lab Sees Rise In Botnet Activity
April 27, 2018  |  Cybersecurity

Kaspersky Lab saw an increase in activity by both old and new botnets as well an increase in popularity of amplification distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in the...

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Uber Updates ‘Bug Bounty’ Payments Policy
Uber Updates ‘Bug Bounty’ Payments Policy
April 26, 2018  |  Cybersecurity

Uber is changing its policy on bug bounties, payments to people who expose data security problems, Reuters reported on Thursday (April 26). Get the Full...

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Equifax’s Data Breach Has Cost It $242.7M
Equifax’s Data Breach Has Cost It $242.7M
April 26, 2018  |  Cybersecurity

Equifax, the embattled credit scoring company that is still reeling from last fall’s massive data breach that exposed information on more than 145 million people,...

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