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A leading cyber-crime expert says foreign hackers who launched a massive attack on Canadian government computers last fall also broke into the data systems of prominent Bay Street law firms and other companies to get insider information on an attempted $38-billion corporate takeover. More...

An electrical fire on Sunday at a data center of the New York Stock Exchange in Mahwah, New Jersey, affected communications connectivity to 58 trading firms, but the exchange expects "completely normal operations" for Monday's market open. More...

The CEO of Comodo, a certificate-issuing company hacked in March, is even more certain now that a wave of attacks against similar firms is backed by the Iranian government. More...

New York -- Federal agents raided the offices of three investment firms, officials said Monday, with the raids coming amid widespread speculation of hedge-fund insider trading allegations. The names of the companies were not made public, but a law enforcement official with knowledge of the...

DHAKA (AFP) – Bangladesh will offload stakes in dozens of state-owned enterprises as part of a major government effort to cool down the country's overheated stock exchange, its finance minister said Monday. Eight state-owned firms, including major energy and power firms, which are already...

Kabul, Afghanistan -- Eight guards of a private security company were killed and three wounded in a clash between insurgents and the private security company Sunday night, officials said. The clash took place in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province, said Daud Ahmadi, the spokesman for the...

Debt-settlement firms face new rules WASHINGTON, The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said companies helping consumers dig out of debt would be barred in the future from accepting payment in advance. FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz said the industry employed "a business model based on deceit." The...