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Cyber Breaches Permanently Hit Share Prices, Especially Financials: Study

Cyber security breaches erode companies’ share prices permanently, with financials the worst hit, a study issued by IT consultant CGI and Oxford Economics has found. Severe cyber security breaches, such as those having legal or regulatory consequences, involve the loss …

Beazley Launches Breach Response Services for Non-U.S. Policyholders

Beazley has introduced a suite of breach preparedness services tailored to the needs of policyholders outside the U.S. The insurer has partnered with privacy specialist lawyers DAC Beachcroft; IT security specialists CGI Group; and international strategic communications consultancy Communications & …

Hackers Find New Battleground in Space, Targeting Satellites in ‘Trophy Attacks’

Space, the ‘final frontier’, is rapidly becoming an extra-terrestrial battleground for corporate espionage and other types of cyber attack as hackers seek to gain commercial advantage from rival networks operating in the $330-billion space economy. At the same time, a …

Massachusetts Paying $35M to End Healthcare Website Contract

Massachusetts health care officials said on June 20 they’ll pay the lead contractor on the state’s hobbled health insurance website an additional $35 million to close out the contract. That means the CGI Group, which has already been paid about …

Mass., Vt. Take Action Against Health Insurance Website Developer

Massachusetts and Vermont are withholding payments and considering legal options against the contractor that set up the states’ problem-plagued health insurance websites. Massachusetts has paid $11 million of its $69 million contract with CGI Group, a Montreal-based information technology company. …