Latest Cyber Headlines
All the headlines from our Cyber Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Luxury Car Hacking Risk Widespread; Evidence Suppressed: Researchers
Aug 14 2015 // Thousands of cars from a host of manufacturers have spent years at risk of electronic car- hacking, according to expert research that Volkswagen has spent two years trying to suppress in the courts. “Keyless”...
Insurers Look to Cyber, M&A Coverage as Prices Decline for 9th Quarter: Marsh
Aug 14 2015 // Commercial insurance rates continued their global decline in the 2015 second quarter, a trend driven by a continued abundance of global capacity and a lack of large insured loss activity, Marsh said in its latest Global...
Zurich Launches Management Liability Offering for SMEs in Australia
Aug 13 2015 // Zurich is launching a new management liability offering, specifically designed to protect small to medium enterprises (SMEs) in Australia, with turnovers up to AUD$50 million. The new product will be provided via...
Georgia-Based INSUREtrust Adds Josaphs, Dollar to Cyber Team
Aug 7 2015 // INSUREtrust in Atlanta, Ga., has added Vince Josaphs and Landon Dollar to its team. Vince Josaphs Josaphs joins the company as senior vice president and will report to Steve Haase, president. Josaphs’ has 15 years of...
Missouri, Illinois Jeep Owners Sue Fiat Chrysler Over Hacking
Aug 7 2015 // Car owners in Belleville and eastern Missouri have filed a federal class-action lawsuit against Fiat Chrysler and a dashboard computer manufacturer after two hackers used a laptop computer to take control of a Jeep being...
Senate Leaders Vow September Vote on Cybersecurity Bill
Aug 6 2015 // The U.S. Senate will not vote on a cyber security bill until September, after lawmakers return from a four-week recess and consider the nuclear agreement with Iran, the chamber’s leaders said on Wednesday. Some...
Hacked Jeep Radio Maker Says No Flaw in Other Models
Aug 6 2015 // Harman International Industries Inc., the maker of the audio system in the Jeep Cherokee that was hacked remotely, said the software flaw that allowed that incident isn’t in infotainment systems it supplies to other...
Car Hacking Risk Could Be More Widespread
Aug 3 2015 // The cybersecurity issues that led Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV to recall 1.4 million vehicles this month could pose a problem for cars and trucks from other automakers, the top U.S. auto safety regulator said on...
Neiman Marcus Ruling Aids Plaintiffs in Data Breach Class Actions
Aug 3 2015 // Data breaches at big retailers are becoming almost commonplace, and class actions by affected consumers are typically not far behind. Now, a federal appeals court in Chicago has made it harder for retailers who are hacked...
Hacker Claims to Open GM’s OnStar App, Start Engine Remotely
Jul 31 2015 // A researcher is advising drivers not to use a mobile app for General Motors Co.’s OnStar vehicle communications system, saying hackers can exploit a security flaw in the product to unlock cars and start engines...
UK’s Allianz Insurance Partners with Pentura to Provide Cyber Risk Services
Jul 31 2015 // Allianz Insurance has joined forces with cyber risk management company, Pentura, to provide commercial customers with help and guidance to improve cyber security. As part of the partnership, Pentura, which is based in...
Public-Private Catastrophe Scheme in UK Would Help Mitigate Cyber-9/11: Study
Jul 31 2015 // A public-private, cyber-catastrophe reinsurance arrangement would improve the UK’s resilience against the growing threat of cyber risks in this interconnected world, according to a cyber report released this...
Cloudsurance Launches Insurance Program For Cloud Consumers
Jul 30 2015 // Cloudsurance has launched a cloud insurance program designed for modern cloud consumers. Cloudsurance is a cloud insurance program designed for cloud consumers and can help mitigate against the inherent risks of cloud...
Fiat Chrysler Recall Highlights Cyber Risks of Connected Cars, Telematics
Jul 27 2015 // Fiat Chrysler will recall 1.4 million vehicles in the United States to install software to prevent hackers from gaining remote control of the engine, steering and other systems in what federal officials said was the first...
ACE Appoints Stapleton VP, Cyber Insurance Manager – ACE Overseas General
Jul 23 2015 // ACE Group announced that Tim Stapleton has joined the company as Vice President and Cyber Insurance Product Manager, a newly created position, for ACE Overseas General, the company’s general insurance business...
Willis Partners with HITRUST to Address the Healthcare Industry’s Cyber Exposures
Jul 23 2015 // The Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST), an organization supporting the healthcare industry in advancing the state of information protection, has partnered with Willis North America to identify a common approach...
How AIG Is Using Cyber Intelligence to Protect Property from Cyber Attacks
Jul 22 2015 // A three-hour shutdown of the New York Stock Exchange on the same day that a network failure halted all United Airlines flights in the U.S. had people across the country thinking one thing: cyber-attack. It wasn’t,...
Staged Hacking Shows Vulnerability of Connected Vehicles
Jul 22 2015 // A pair of veteran cybersecurity researchers have shown they can use the Internet to turn off a car’s engine as it drives, sharply escalating the stakes in the debate about the safety of increasingly connected cars...
CFC Partners With Cyber Security Ratings Firm to Evaluate Insureds’ Cyber Risk
Jul 20 2015 // Specialist lines underwriting agency CFC has formed a partnership with cyber security ratings agency, BitSight Technologies. CFC will use BitSight’s ratings tool to provide insight into the cyber threats that their...
U.S. Power Grid Attack Could Cause $70 Billion in Insurance Losses: Lloyd’s Report
Jul 20 2015 // A cyber attack on the U.S. power grid in the Northeast would have far-reaching implications including the loss of lives, economic losses of as much as a trillion dollars, the disruption of water supplies and...
