US Securities and Exchange Commission

Confused by the SEC's IT security breach reporting rules? Read this

'Clarification' weighs in on material vs voluntary disclosures

CSO22 May 2024 | 2

Infosec biz boss accused of BS'ing the world about his career, anti-crime product, customers

Intrusion investors went through Blount farce trauma, says SEC

Cyber-crime01 May 2024 | 14

SEC cleared to take securities beef against Coinbase to trial

Judge says watchdog can HODL four of its five charges against crypto exchange

Applications27 Mar 2024 | 2

Sun Microsystems co-founder charged with insider trading

Andreas Bechtolsheim is paying out less than $1M to SEC amid allegations he illegally bought options

Networks26 Mar 2024 | 11

Investment advisors pay the price for selling what looked a lot like AI fairy tales

SEC bags $400K in settlements

AI + ML18 Mar 2024 | 8

Lordstown Motors to pay $25M in SEC settlement over misleading investor claims

Feds allege EV maker talked up pre-orders for trucks it didn't have parts for

Legal01 Mar 2024 | 6

Elon Musk can't wriggle out of SEC Twitter fraud inquiry

Lawyers argue requests for more info are tantamount to harassment

Offbeat12 Feb 2024 | 46

Republican senators try to outlaw rules that restrict Wall Street’s use of AI

Everyone should be free to trust AI to make their financial decisions, without knowing if it's also used against them

AI + ML07 Feb 2024 | 28

Biden will veto attempts to kill off SEC's security breach reporting rules

Senate, House can try but won't make it past the Prez, says White House

Security01 Feb 2024 | 18

SolarWinds slams SEC lawsuit against it as 'unprecedented' victim blaming

18,000 customers, including the Pentagon and Microsoft, may have other thoughts

CSO29 Jan 2024 | 16

Tesla hacks make big bank at Pwn2Own's first automotive-focused event

Infosec in brief ALSO: SEC admits to X account negligence; New macOS malware family appears; and some critical vulns

Security29 Jan 2024 | 9

Musk takes SEC 'Twitter sitter' consent decree appeal to US Supreme Court

Same old argument about free speech – let's see if it sticks this time

Legal08 Dec 2023 | 53

GitLab admits IT ineptitude in finance reporting is ongoing

Code shack has had two years since auditor's 'adverse opinion' to get house in order

Devops07 Dec 2023 | 8

Crypto crasher Do Kwon's extradition approved, but destination is unclear

Hey Google, are the jails nicer in South Korea or the US?

Cyber-crime27 Nov 2023 | 4

SolarWinds says SEC sucks: Watchdog 'lacks competence' to regulate cybersecurity

IT software slinger publishes fierce response to lawsuit brought last month

Cyber-crime09 Nov 2023 | 17

Finance orgs have 30 days to confess cyber sins under incoming FTC rules

Follows similar efforts from the SEC and DHS in recent months

Cyber-crime31 Oct 2023 |

SolarWinds charged after SEC says biz knew IT was leaky ahead of SUNBURST attack

Developer labels action 'unfounded' after company and CISO slapped with suit for misleading investors

Cybersecurity Month31 Oct 2023 | 9

No more Mr Nice DoJ: Tesla gets subpoenas over self-driving software claims

Has someone been shooting their mouth off a little too much?

Personal Tech23 Oct 2023 | 35

SEC boss warns it's 'nearly unavoidable' that AI will cause financial crash

AI In Brief Plus Meta gets physical, moves bots in the house...

AI + ML23 Oct 2023 | 28

Musk in hot water with SEC for failure to comply with subpoena

What do you mean they aren't optional for billionaires?

Legal06 Oct 2023 | 47

MGM Resorts attackers hit personal data jackpot, but house lost $100M

Racecars and cyber insurance will balance its books in no time, though

Cyber-crime06 Oct 2023 | 2

SEC gets $10m from Lyft over failure to disclose $424m pre-IPO stock sale

Board member sold off stock just before listing, Lyft forgot to mention it

Legal18 Sep 2023 |

Stoner Cats NFT project declawed for being an unregistered security

You can't puff puff pass on the Securities Act

Offbeat14 Sep 2023 | 31

America's financial cops say Impact Theory's NFTs were unregistered securities

Dissenting opinion asserts position is wrong and that many headaches linger

Personal Tech29 Aug 2023 | 6

Blazar Token creator accused of using investor funds for renovating bathroom

Interesting choice, if true. Not a Lamborghini, is it?

Legal24 Aug 2023 | 10

SEC fines fintech crypto fund that promised 2,700% returns

Titan Global Capital Management to pay $1m to those it advised without admitting fault

Cyber-crime22 Aug 2023 | 13

SEC lawsuit against Terraform Labs and cofounder Do Kwon lives to fight another day

Crypto bad boy’s appeal denied, despite recent Ripple Labs ruling

Legal01 Aug 2023 | 2

Crooks pwned your servers? You've got four days to tell us, SEC tells public companies

Cripes, they actually sound serious

CSO26 Jul 2023 | 29

Coinbase, don't feel left out. SEC has a lawsuit for you, too

Rules are rules, say watchdogs. Well, there aren't any clear ones, biz shoots back

Personal Tech06 Jun 2023 | 11

SEC drops 42 cases after staff bungle data protection

Corporate watchdog fouled its info-separation regime, let the wrong people read sensitive docs

CSO06 Jun 2023 | 2

B-List celebs including Lindsay Lohan fined after crypto shill probe

Didn't disclose payments as mastermind pumped up value of tokens with fake trades

Cyber-crime23 Mar 2023 | 40

Feds arrest and charge exiled Chinese billionaire over massive crypto fraud

This one has it all: Donald Trump’s inner circle, a Beijing bot backlash, conspiracy theories, and more

Cyber-crime17 Mar 2023 | 22

DXC Technology fined $8m by SEC for misleading investors

Penalty paid for misclassifying tens of millions of dollars of costs, and for 'inadequate' controls missing the error

Legal15 Mar 2023 | 1

What happens if you 'cover up' a ransomware infection? For Blackbaud, a $3m charge

File under cost of doing business

CSO10 Mar 2023 | 9

CEO Elon Musk wants out of Tesla tweet jail. Lol, no, says SEC

Uncle Sam still wants lawyer to vet EV tycoon's meme emissions

Offbeat24 Feb 2023 | 27

Lawyers join forces to fight common enemy: The SEC and its probes into cyber-victims

Did the financial watchdog just do the impossible and herd cats?

Cyber-crime23 Feb 2023 | 10

Ex-CEO of logistics startup Slync collared on multimillion fraud, embezzlement charges

Christopher Kirchner alleged to have hyped up biz to investors then siphoned off a slice of cash

Legal15 Feb 2023 | 2

Russian crook made $90M exploiting stolen info on Tesla, Roku, Avnet, Snap, more

Undisclosed earnings reports swiped, exploited

Cyber-crime15 Feb 2023 | 4

Activision-Blizzard pays $35m to send SEC away, Microsoft merger still in doubt

Allegations of stifled whistleblowing and disclosure failures end with no admission of guilt, as usual

Personal Tech03 Feb 2023 | 5

Lawyers slam SEC for 'blatant fishing expedition' after Exchange mega-attack

Not a 'whiff of wrongdoing' here, says attorney now fighting off Uncle Sam

Security12 Jan 2023 | 4

SEC: Startup had 'no functional streaming service', raised $1.3m anyway

Asks Florida judge to sanction 'American-Latino centric version of Netflix’ for alleged fraud

Legal22 Dec 2022 | 12

FTX CTO and Alameda Research CEO admit fraud, pair 'cooperating' with Feds

Samuel Bankman-Fried in FBI custody to face court 'as soon as possible'

Networks22 Dec 2022 | 57

SEC charges crew of social media influencers with $100m fraud

Defendants allegedly 'discussed their scheme’ in recorded chats on Discord and Twitter that ‘they believed were private’

Cyber-crime15 Dec 2022 | 19

Broker-dealers can stop burning records to CD, but they don’t have to, says SEC

New-fangled cloud storage now an option. What's that internet app the kids are all using again? Whatsupp?

Storage14 Oct 2022 | 12

Financial watchdogs want to know what traders are talking about on WhatsApp

Keen interest in messaging platform follows $2 billion fines in US

Security13 Oct 2022 | 28

Oracle pays $23 million to SEC to settle bribery charges

India, Turkey, UAE subsidiaries set up slush funds to bribe 'foreign officials' says watchdog

Databases27 Sep 2022 | 8

Boeing to pay SEC $200m to settle charges it misled investors over 737 MAX safety

Ex-CEO also on the hook for $1m after skipping over known software issues

Software23 Sep 2022 | 43

Morgan Stanley fined $35m after hard drives sold with customer info still on them

Encryption? Data destruction? Bueller?

Storage20 Sep 2022 | 28

SEC says brokerage accounts hijacked for $1.3m pump-and-dump scam

18 people and businesses charged, one giant web of connections

Cyber-crime16 Aug 2022 | 3

US authorities threaten Alibaba with NYSE delisting

Strike one: Amazon rival's audits apparently haven't satisfied the SEC

Legal01 Aug 2022 | 23

Bogus cryptocurrency apps steal millions in mere months

As if the crypto world needs any help in making money vanish

Cyber-crime18 Jul 2022 | 21

Datacenter operator Switch hit with claims it misled investors over $11b buyout

Complainants say financial projections were not disclosed, rendering SEC filing false and misleading

Systems01 Jul 2022 |

How can we make the VC world less pale and male, Congress wonders

'Combating tech bro culture' on the agenda this week for US House committee

Legal29 Jun 2022 | 23

Musk can't tweet about Tesla without lawyer approval – and he's still fighting to end that

By free speech, he means freedom to flip the bird at the SEC

Bootnotes15 Jun 2022 | 48

Musk repeats threat to end $46.5bn Twitter deal – with lawyers, not just tweets

Right as Texas AG sticks his oar in

Personal Tech06 Jun 2022 | 33

SEC probes Musk for not properly disclosing Twitter stake

Meanwhile, social network's board rejects resignation of one its directors

Personal Tech27 May 2022 | 19