Latest Cyber Headlines
All the headlines from our Cyber Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Filing Deadline Approaching for New York’s Cybersecurity Regulation
Feb 5 2018 // New York Department of Financial Services Superintendent Maria T. Vullo has reminded all regulated entities and licensed persons covered by the Department of Financial Services’s (DFS) cybersecurity regulation that...
Massachusetts Launches Online Data Breach Reporting Portal
Feb 2 2018 // Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey has launched a new Data Breach Reporting Online Portal, which businesses and organizations can use to provide notice to the AG’s Office as required by the Massachusetts...
More Hackers Target Red-Hot Cryptocurrency Space: Report
Feb 2 2018 // Bitcoin’s popularity and the emergence of about 1,500 other digital coins or tokens have drawn more hackers into the red-hot cryptocurrency space, expanding opportunities for crime and fraud, cyber security firm...
8 Ways Cyber Threats and Business Security Will Change This Year: Aon’s Predictions
Feb 2 2018 // As cyber attacks increasingly threaten business and grow in volume and scale, companies will be forced to take new measures to address cybersecurity risk holistically, integrating it more aggressively into their enterprise...
Tokio Marine Kiln Taps Jomaa from CFC as Cyber Underwriter
Feb 1 2018 // Tokio Marine Kiln (TMK), the London-based provider of specialist and corporate insurance, has appointed Alex Jomaa as cyber underwriter. He takes up the role immediately and will report to Laila Khudairi, head of...
Timeline: Growing List of Major Cryptocurrency Heists
Feb 1 2018 // The $500 million heist of digital tokens from Japanese exchange Coincheck Inc. on Friday is remarkable for its sheer size, but thefts in the lightly regulated world of cryptocurrencies are woefully frequent. In less than a...
Insurers Begin to Offer Cryptocurrency Theft Cover, Tackling Risks of Growing Sector
Feb 1 2018 // Major global insurers are starting to offer protection against cryptocurrency theft, willing to tackle daunting challenges it brings rather than miss out on this volatile and loosely regulated, but rapidly growing...
International Underwriting Association Calls for EU Registry of Cyber Claims Data
Jan 31 2018 // A more coherent, consistent recording of cyber incidents would help the insurance industry better understand the frequency and cost of cyber claims, according to a report published by the International Underwriting...
The New York DFS Wants Certificates of Compliance for Valentine’s Day
Jan 31 2018 // What were you planning to give the New York Department of Financial Services for Valentine’s Day? Hopefully, a certificate of compliance. It is hard to believe that almost a year has passed since the NYDFS...
School Testing Vendor Data Breach Exposes Info of 663 Mississippi Students
Jan 29 2018 // Mississippi education officials said last week that a recently disclosed data breach by a testing vendor has exposed information from 663 students in Tupelo and Jefferson County. State Superintendent Carey Wright said that...
Hartford Steam Boiler Launches HSB Cyber Suite for Mid-Sized Businesses
Jan 26 2018 // Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company (HSB), part of Munich Re, has introduced HSB Cyber Suite, a comprehensive cyber insurance coverage designed for small to mid-sized businesses and other...
Bloomberg Interview with Lloyd’s CEO Beale in Davos: Economic Outlook, Asia Growth, Cyber, Brexit and More
Jan 26 2018 // Lloyd’s of London, the world’s oldest insurance market, is experiencing year-on-year growth of 100 percent in some of its Asian markets, where growing economies are fueling demand for cover from the...
Cyber VC Firm, Advised by Ex-Intelligence Officials, Plans Europe M&As
Jan 26 2018 // A venture capital fund advised by former British and U.S. intelligence officials is planning a string of acquisitions to create a pan-European cyber security specialist. C5 Capital aims to create a regional managed...
Google Parent Alphabet Enters Cyber Security Market with Chronicle
Jan 25 2018 // Alphabet Inc. launched a new business unit on Wednesday that will sell cyber security software to Fortune 500 companies, the latest move by the parent of Google to become a big player in corporate computing. The new unit,...
WPP’s CEO Provides Insights from His Advertising Firm’s Cyber Attack
Jan 24 2018 // Top executives rarely spill the beans in public when their companies are hacked. WPP Plc’s Chief Executive Officer Martin Sorrell, at a Bloomberg event Wednesday in Davos, provided extensive insight into the cyber...
KKR-Backed Optiv Plans to Offer Cyber Security Services in Europe
Jan 24 2018 // Optiv Security, an acquisitive Denver-based company backed by private equity firm KKR, is expanding into Europe where it will offer its cyber security management and consultancy services, executives said on Tuesday. Optiv...
Beazley Adds Post-Breach Services to Cyber Coverage for Small, Mid-Sized Policyholders
Jan 24 2018 // Beazley has further enhanced its Beazley Breach Response (BBR) coverage for small and mid-sized policyholders in the U.S. In conjunction with Lodestone Security, a specialist advisory firm and wholly owned subsidiary of...
Express Scripts Fight Over Cyber Disclosure Reaches SEC
Jan 24 2018 // The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission will review a dispute between Express Scripts Holding Co. and New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli over his effort to force the prescription-benefits manager to increase...
$19 Billion in Potential Losses from Cloud Services Failure Mostly Uninsured: Lloyd’s, AIR
Jan 23 2018 // A cyber problem that temporary shuts down a top U.S. cloud computing provider could trigger as much as $19 billion in business losses, only a fraction of which would be insured, Lloyd’s of London said in a report on...
Idaho School Trying to Recover Data Weeks After Ransom-Seeking Cyberattack
Jan 23 2018 // Nearly six weeks after being hit by a massive ransomware cyberattack, the Jerome School District is still working to recover. On Dec. 11, school district officials found out much of its data was encrypted. Each affected...
