Cybersecurity

Over six days in April 2016, one or more persons impersonating VFA contractor representatives called VFA’s technical support line and requested a reset of three ...

We’ve written before about the old wire transfer scheme: an imposter hacks into a customer’s e-mail account to make unauthorized third-party withdrawals (BD Watch, July ...

It’s the IT equivalent of leaving your front door open to the world.   The CFTC has fined the futures commission merchant AMP Global Clearing ...

Investment adviser execs are bullish about their business prospects and foresee substantial increases in headcount and AUM over the next one year and three years, ...

The previously signaled next OCIE sweep exam scrutinizing how advisers protect their sensitive data will be kicked off sometime in the next year (IA Watch, ...

Take two teenaged hackers in Ukraine. Add a former Morgan Stanley investment adviser who moonlights as a pastor and his friend, a former rep. Toss ...

The SEC charged that Ukrainian hackers used advanced techniques to hack into newswire services and steal hundreds of corporate earnings releases before the newswires released ...

It could not have been an easy e-mail to write for Crawford Lake Capital Management ($679M in AUM). The Lakewood, N.J.-based adviser recently e-mailed its ...

You no doubt have been getting multiple e-mails from various parties touting their new privacy policies, detailing opt-in notices and calling out that the messages ...

A “balanced approach” to initial coin offerings is being pursued by the SEC’s Division of Enforcement and across the Commission, reported Steven Peikin, co-director of ...