Latest Cyber Headlines
All the headlines from our Cyber Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Testing Firm Wins FTC Data Privacy Case But Closes Business
Nov 18 2015 // An administrative judge has dismissed the Federal Trade Commission’s data security case against cancer testing company LabMD, marking the first defeat for an agency that has successfully brought such cases against...
Top Cyber Threats for 2016 and Next Five Years
Nov 17 2015 // Businesses and organizations should expect cyber criminals to attack through wearable devices, employees’ home systems, cloud services and automobiles within the next year, according cyber experts at Intel’s...
UK’s Chancellor of Exchequer to Double Budget to Fight Cyber Terrorism
Nov 17 2015 // Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne announced he’ll double funding to strengthen the U.K.’s cyber defenses, while refusing to confirm that budget cuts to be announced next week would spare...
How New Chip Cards Raise the Risk for Merchants
Nov 16 2015 // On Oct. 1, 2015, many of your clients took on a lot more risk, and may not even know it. The Payment Card Industry, PCI, which is the self-regulating organization that oversees everyone that accepts or issues payment...
Agent, Cyber-Educate Yourself – and Your Clients
Nov 16 2015 // A recent report showing that cyber insurance premiums will grow globally from $2 billion annually to more than $20 billion over the next 10 years reinforces what most in the insurance industry already know: cyber risks are...
Agent, Cyber-Educate Yourself – and Your Clients
Nov 16 2015 // A recent report showing that cyber insurance premiums will grow globally from $2 billion annually to more than $20 billion over the next 10 years reinforces what most in the insurance industry already know: cyber risks are...
HSB Engineering Insurance Launches Cyber Insurance Cover for UK SMEs
Nov 13 2015 // HSB Engineering Insurance has launched a new cyber insurance product aimed directly at small to medium-sized businesses in the U.K. In response to the growing demand for insurance solutions to cover cyber risks,...
N.Y. Regulators Weigh Cybersecurity Requirements for Banks, Insurers
Nov 12 2015 // New York regulators are considering a host of cybersecurity requirements for banks and insurers and urged other state and federal authorities to collaborate on establishing a framework of defenses for the financial...
Uber Resorts to Legal Maneuver to ID Hacker Behind Data Breach
Nov 12 2015 // Ride service Uber is attempting a new legal maneuver to learn more about an Internet address that it thinks could help identify the individual who improperly accessed an Uber database last year, according to court filings...
U.S. Charges 3 in ‘Securities Fraud on Cyber Steroids’ Scheme
Nov 11 2015 // U.S. prosecutors on Tuesday unveiled criminal charges against three men accused of running a sprawling computer hacking and fraud scheme that included a huge attack against JPMorgan Chase & Co. and generated hundreds...
5 Recent Reports on Businesses and Cyber Security, Liability and Insurance
Nov 6 2015 // Cyber security is clearly on the minds of business executives, most of whom acknowledge their firms have been victimized by some sort of cyber attack. What are they thinking about cyber security, cyber liability and cyber...
China Asked to Revise Draft Cyber Security Rules Affecting Insurance Industry
Nov 5 2015 // Foreign business lobbies have asked China to substantially revise proposed cyber security regulations for the insurance industry, signaling a dispute that started with the publication of similar bank technology rules...
Penn National Insurance Adds Cyber Security Coverage
Nov 4 2015 // Penn National Insurance will begin offering cyber security insurance coverage as part of its commercial lines product offerings. Cyber security insurance provides coverage for expenses and exposures associated with a data...
Agent, Cyber-Educate Yourself – and Your Clients
Nov 2 2015 // A recent report showing that cyber insurance premiums will grow globally from $2 billion annually to more than $20 billion over the next 10 years reinforces what most in the insurance industry already know: cyber risks are...
US and UK to Hold Joint Exercise to Test Cyber Security of Global Financial Firms
Nov 2 2015 // The US and British governments will hold a joint exercise to test cyber security and information sharing arrangements involving global financial institutions, according to the UK National Computer Emergency Response Team...
Hackers Find New Battleground in Space, Targeting Satellites in ‘Trophy Attacks’
Oct 27 2015 // 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...
PivotPoint Analytics Launches Cyber Risk Assessment Product
Oct 26 2015 // PivotPoint Risk Analytics has launched a new company and its flagship product CyVaR, which quantifies cyber value-at-risk and gives chief information security officers (CISOs) and business leaders a common language in...
Cyber Sharing, Liability Bill Makes Progress in Senate
Oct 23 2015 // A long-delayed bill that would make it easier for corporations to share information about cyber attacks with each other or the government without fear of lawsuits advanced in the U.S. Senate on Thursday with support from...
Don’t Strangle the Cyber-Insurance Market in its Cradle
Oct 22 2015 // We live in an era of disruption. Technology redefines our world on a regular basis, as the wonders of networks that allow data to be transferred virtually without restriction have enmeshed knowledge and commerce into our...
Senate Takes Up Cyber Liability Bill
Oct 21 2015 // The U.S. Senate on Tuesday began debating a long-delayed bill that would make it easier for corporations to share information about cyber attacks with each other or the government without concern about lawsuits. Senate...
