Latest Cyber Headlines
All the headlines from our Cyber Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Tennessee-Based Community Health Reports 4.5M Records Hacked
Aug 19 2014 // Chinese hackers stole social security numbers, names and addresses from 4.5 million patients of Community Health Systems Inc., the second-biggest for-profit U.S. hospital chain, according to the company. The attacks...
Government Action, Insurance, Software Product Liability Urged for Cyber Security
Aug 11 2014 // Alarmed by mounting cyber threats around the world and across industries, a growing number of security experts see aggressive government action as the best hope for averting disaster. Even though some experts are outraged...
Smartphones Not All That Security Smart; Major Threats Revealed
Aug 8 2014 // Security researchers revealed two separate threats last week they say could put up to 90 percent of the world’s 2 billion plus smartphones at risk of password theft, stolen data and, in some cases, let hackers take...
Cyber Pros Say Some Cars More ‘Hackable’ Than Others
Aug 6 2014 // Chrysler and Nissan said they are reviewing a report by well-known cyber security experts that rates their vehicles among the three “most hackable” cars on the market, along with a General Motors...
TSC Advantage Enhances Cyber Assessment Technology for Insurers
Aug 5 2014 // TSC Advantage, an enterprise risk consultancy, has enhanced its cyber risk assessment Threat Vector Manager (TVM) technology for commercial organizations, critical infrastructure and the public sector. In addition, through...
22.8M New Yorkers’ Personal Records Exposed
Aug 4 2014 // Nearly 23 million private records of New Yorkers have been exposed in data security breaches reported by more than 3,000 businesses, nonprofits and governments over the past eight years, New York’s attorney general...
Hackers Pose High Terror Threat to U.S., Says 9/11 Panel
Jul 28 2014 // The terrorist threat against the U.S. remains dangerous 10 years after the 9/11 Commission issued its first report — only now the risk is greater online. In a report issued last week, panel members who studied the...
XL Group Launches Cyber Liability Coverage in Brazil
Jul 22 2014 // After last month’s launch of its cyber liability including professional indemnity coverage for technology companies, XL Group has announced “the launch of a second, more general cyber risks insurance solution...
ISO Comments on CGL Endorsements for Data Breach Liability Exclusions
Jul 18 2014 // As data breaches become more prevalent in the workplace, ISO, a member of the Verisk Insurance Solutions group at Verisk Analytics in Jersey City, N.J., has been taking steps to constrain commercial general liability...
Smart Meters Pose New Risks for Energy Industry
Jul 18 2014 // Last November, Felix Lindner came very close to shutting down the power supply of Ettlingen, a town of almost 40,000 people in the south of Germany. “We could have switched off everything: power, water, gas,”...
Computers at Growing Risk of Hijack by Botnet Viruses, U.S. Says
Jul 17 2014 // The threat posed by criminal hackers who use networks of secretly hijacked computers has increased “dramatically” over the past several years, a top U.S. Justice Department prosecutor testified Tuesday. Leslie...
Report: Data Breaches Cost N.Y. Businesses $1.37B Last Year
Jul 15 2014 // Security breaches exposing consumers’ personal information are becoming larger and more frequent in New York, costing businesses more than $1.37 billion last year, the state attorney general’s office said. Data...
Insurers in Dash for Expertise to Master Cyber Risk Insurance
Jul 14 2014 // Insurers are eagerly eyeing exponential growth in the tiny cyber coverage market but their lack of experience and skills handling hackers and data breaches may keep their ambitions in check. High profile cases of hackers...
Senate Advances Bill to Shield Firms Sharing Cyber Threats with NSA
Jul 9 2014 // The Senate is advancing legislation that would let companies and the U.S. government share information about hacking threats, even as privacy advocates say the plan could enable the National Security Agency to sweep up...
Financial Firms Propose Cyber War Council
Jul 8 2014 // Wall Street’s biggest trade group has proposed a government-industry cyber war council to stave off terrorist attacks that could trigger financial panic by temporarily wiping out account balances, according to an...
Data Breach of 20K Young Patients at California Hospital
Jul 7 2014 // Southern California’s Rady Children’s Hospital says the private health data of more than 20,000 young patients was mistakenly shared with a handful of job applicants. In one breach in June a Rady employee...
Insurers See Rise in Severity of Lawyers’ Malpractice Claims: Ames & Gough
Jul 2 2014 // Although the frequency of law firm malpractice claims has begun to level off following a post-recession surge, their severity has continued to increase. A study by insurance broker Ames & Gough finds most leading legal...
Cybersecurity Analysts Stress Need for Data Sharing by Companies
Jul 2 2014 // In an 11-story office building in the Washington suburbs, hundreds of U.S. cybersecurity analysts work around the clock to foil hackers. Possible breaches of government networks show up as red flashes on screens that line...
U.S. Ambassador Presses China Over Cyber Theft, Investment Treaty
Jun 25 2014 // Cyber theft of trade secrets by China is a threat to U.S. national security, U.S. Ambassador to China Max Baucus said on Wednesday in the first major public address of his tenure, warning that Washington would continue to...
Zurich Introduces Property Coverage for Cloud-Dependent Companies
Jun 24 2014 // Zurich North America has introduced new property coverage for cloud-dependent, middle-market companies. As the new property coverage enhancement for companies is not location specific, Zurich now offers insurance coverage...
