Latest Cyber Headlines

All the headlines from our Cyber Topic Page, ordered by recency.

Cyber Risk

Mar 21 2005 // Nuts & Bolts: ISO introduced a new line of insurance to cover cyber risk. The new program includes policy contract forms, underwriting rules, loss costs (projections of future claims) and an advisory application...

ChoicePoint: ‘Insurance Industry Databases Were Not Compromised’

Mar 7 2005 // ChoicePoint’s Clue Auto, Clue Property and Current Carrier insurance industry databases were not in any way involved or compromised by the fraud ring that obtained data from other ChoicePoint databases of public...

Cyber Risk

Feb 21 2005 // Nuts & Bolts: This new program from ISO includes policy contract forms, underwriting rules, loss costs (projections of future claims) and an advisory application supplemented by an advisory underwriting guide. While...

AIU Underwrites ScanAlert’s Japan Hacker Coverage

Oct 5 2004 // Napa Calif.-based ScanAlert announced that AIU Insurance Japan, a division of AIG and the largest foreign-affiliated P/C insurer in Japan, is underwriting a new hacker insurance program for all “HACKER SAFE”...

Right This Way! Hotels Make Room for Risk Management

Aug 23 2004 // In the months after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the U.S. hospitality industry took a one-two punch. Travel and tourism plummeted as worried Americans canceled vacation plans and cautious businesses cut back on trips....

Is It Time to Take Your Agency Wireless’

Jul 5 2004 // Wireless can make sense because you can be mobile while still being connected to the agency’s network. Now the information is at the producer’s fingertips. The insurance industry seems to have embraced wireless...

Is It Time to Take Your Agency Wireless’

Jun 21 2004 // The insurance industry seems to have embraced wireless communications for its method of out-of-the-office computing. It is a hugely popular means of transmitting data, with millions of wireless Internet subscribers’...

Assurex Technology Gives Risk Mgrs.24/7 Capability

Apr 20 2004 // Assurex Global, the world’s largest privately held risk management, commercial insurance and employee benefits broker group, announced the launch of new software to enhance communication and information-sharing among...

NAIW Dallas to Present Cyber Crime Class

Apr 7 2004 // NAIW Dallas Inc. announced they are sponsoring NAIW’s newest education program—Cyber Crime: The Hidden Exclusions. The program was developed exclusively for NAIW, will take place May 28 in Dallas at the Wyndam...

The Strange Saga of Near North National Group’s Michael Segal

Jan 26 2004 // Powerful Friends, Enemy Insiders and Embezzlement Charges We are destroyed as of today,” Michael Segal, owner of Chicago-based Near North National Group, told me several weeks ago in his 20th-floor office in the John...

The Strange Saga of Near North National Group’s Michael Segal

Jan 26 2004 // Powerful Friends, Enemy Insiders and Embezzlement Charges We are destroyed as of today,” Michael Segal, owner of Chicago-based Near North National Group, told me several weeks ago in his 20th-floor office in the John...

The Strange Saga of Near North’s Michael Segal

Jan 12 2004 // We are destroyed as of today,” Michael Segal, owner of Chicago-based Near North National Group, told me several weeks ago in his 20th-floor office in the John Hancock Tower. The group’s subsidiary, Near North...

PLUS Convention Highlights D&O, E&O Concerns For Agents/Brokers

Dec 1 2003 // The Professional Liability Underwriting Society’s 16th annual convention, held Nov. 9-11 in Philadelphia, featured a broad range of discussions on timely issues facing insurers, agents, brokers and the lawyers who...

Assurex Global Elects Board and Officers

Nov 14 2003 // Columbus, Ohio-based brokerage giant Assurex Global announced the appointment of new directors and officers to the its board of directors for 2004. Officers include Chairman Gregory S. Belton of Hunter Keilty Muntz &...

AIA Warns All Businesses on Dangers of Cyber Threats

Sep 8 2003 // The proliferation of the “MS Blaster” worm recently clearly demonstrates just how vulnerable both private and public sector entities remain to an ever-growing variety of cyber threats, according to the American...

AIA Warns All Businesses on Dangers of Cyber Threats

Aug 15 2003 // The proliferation of the “MS Blaster” worm this week clearly demonstrates just how vulnerable both private and public sector entities remain to an ever-growing variety of cyber threats, according to the...

I.I.I. Says Most Companies Have Cyber-Risk Gaps in Their Coverage

Aug 14 2003 // As companies become more dependent on their computer networks for vital data, business continuity and communications, their vulnerability to cyber catastrophes reportedly increases. “Unfortunately, most companies are...

Assurex Global Names New CEO

Aug 13 2003 // Columbus, Ohio-based brokerage and risk-management firm Assurex Global announced the appointment of central Ohio’s James R. Hackbarth as CEO. Hackbarth takes the helm immediately. Hackbarth brings to Assurex Global...

James R. Hackbarth to Lead Assurex Global

Aug 12 2003 // Assurex Global, the world’s largest privately held risk management and commercial insurance brokerage group, announced that James R. Hackbarth has been named as its new President and CEO, effective...

AIG eBusiness Risk Solutions Expands Coverage Against Cyber Security Threats

May 7 2003 // AIG eBusiness Risk Solutions (AIG eBRS), a unit of the property and casualty subsidiaries of American International Group, Inc. (AIG) has enhanced its AIG NetAdvantage® Suite of network security insurance and risk...