The Securities and Exchange Commission will force companies to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions for the first time, but watered down a key requirement after heavy lobbying from industry groups. After receiving thousands of comment letters and numerous litigation threats, …
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday sued software company SolarWinds Corp. and its top information security executive, saying they defrauded investors by hiding cybersecurity weaknesses during a massive hack targeting the U.S. government. The SEC lawsuit in Manhattan …
Business lobbyists are struggling to soften new US Securities and Exchange Commission rules that require publicly traded companies to quickly disclose cybersecurity breaches. The Justice Department is planning to issue guidance by December on how firms can get exemptions fromthe …
A group of Tesla Inc. investors stands to recover an average of about $12,000 a head for losses they incurred from Elon Musk’s famous 2018 tweet that he had “funding secured” to take the carmaker private at $420 a share …
Twitter Inc. misled federal regulators about its defenses against hackers and spam accounts, the social media company’s former security chief Peiter Zatko said in a whistleblower complaint. In an 84-page complaint, Zatko, a famed hacker more widely known as “Mudge,” …
The chief operating officer of a Philadelphia-based technology startup company orchestrated a long-running securities offering fraud while simultaneously embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from the firm, according to federal prosecutors in New Jersey. Joseph Geromini, 54, of Linwood, New …
A Massachusetts judge on Thursday rejected Robinhood’s bid to block state regulators from moving forward with their enforcement action alleging that the online brokerage encourages inexperienced investors to place risky trades without limits. Suffolk County Superior Court Judge Kenneth Salinger …
