Latest Cyber Headlines
All the headlines from our Cyber Topic Page, ordered by recency.
New York AG to Propose Legislation to Strengthen Data Security Law
Jan 15 2015 // New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman will propose legislation on Thursday that he says would make the state’s data security law the strongest in the country and require “unprecedented safeguards”...
Allianz Survey: Businesses Face New Challenges in Interconnected World
Jan 15 2015 // Business interruption (BI) and supply chain, natural catastrophes and fire/explosion are the major risks that occupy the attention of companies at the start of 2015, according to the fourth annual “Allianz Risk...
P/C Insurers See Surge in Cyber Insurance, M&A Activity in 2015
Jan 15 2015 // Property/casualty insurance executives overwhelmingly predict growth in both cyber insurance and merger and acquisitions (M&A) activity in 2015, according to a new Insurance Information Institute annual...
19 States Seek Data on Damages from JPMorgan Breach
Jan 15 2015 // JPMorgan Chase & Co. was pressed for more evidence by a group of states probing a data breach that jeopardized millions of customer accounts last year, including whether any of the compromised information has been...
Cybersecurity Bill Faces Tough Sledding on Capitol Hill
Jan 15 2015 // President Barack Obama’s bid to get Congress to pass stalled cybersecurity legislation is seen as having an uphill fight amid differences between Republicans and the administration over privacy safeguards and other...
President Urges Congress to Pass Bipartisan Cybersecurity Legislation
Jan 14 2015 // President Barack Obama sought to rally Congress to pass stalled U.S. cybersecurity legislation, an effort that may face obstacles as tensions with key Republicans quickly began to surface. Obama announced Tuesday revised...
How to Prevent Next Sony-Style Cyber Attack: Alexander
Jan 14 2015 // Cybervandalism, cyberterrorism, cyberwarfare. No matter what you call the recent attacks against Sony Pictures, we weren’t ready. And we won’t be ready until our nation — with the government and industry...
Insurance to Fully Cover Sony’s Cyber Attack, Says CEO
Jan 12 2015 // Over the past seven weeks, Sony Pictures’ chief executive has dealt with the fallout from a cyber attack he likens to having your house robbed and burned to the ground. But the devastating hack, he says, might end up...
IMA Names Burke Director Of Cyber Risk in Colorado
Jan 12 2015 // IMA Inc. has named Tim Burke as the new director of cyber risk in its Denver, Colo. office. Burke expands IMA’s capabilities to address some of the most pressing issues facing companies regarding the ever changing...
Readers’ Choice: Cyber Risk Was Top P/C News of 2014
Jan 12 2015 // InsuranceJournal.com asked readers what they thought was the most important property/casualty insurance story of 2014. Cyber risk came in on top, followed by news about Uber and ridesharing services. Here’s how the...
U.K. Power Grid Under Cyber-Attack Every Minute; Government Hikes Defenses
Jan 9 2015 // The U.K. government is one step ahead of hackers trying to turn off the country’s lights — for now. The prospect of cyber-attacks on the nation’s power network is major threat to the country’s...
Sony Case Among Growing Number of Cyber Ransoms: Benner
Jan 1 2015 // Just three days before cyber-attackers crippled Sony Pictures, the hackers sent an e-mail to executives Michael Lynton and Amy Pascal that said they would do great damage to the company if they weren’t paid off. The...
Corporations Warned Not to Hack Back
Dec 31 2014 // The hacked are itching to hack back. So say a dozen security specialists and former law enforcement officials who described an intensifying and largely unspoken sense of unease inside many companies after the recent breach...
‘Throwing Money’ at Data Breach Victims May Not Be Best Response
Dec 28 2014 // Offering customers discounts in future purchases and free credit monitoring —strategies used by Target after its large-scale data breach — may raise suspicions rather than satisfy customers’ sense of justice,...
Ex-Sony Employees’ Lawsuit Blames Company For Failed Data Security
Dec 23 2014 // Sony Pictures Entertainment has been sued by two self-described former employees who accuse the movie studio of failing to protect Social Security numbers, healthcare records, salaries and other data from computer hackers...
Risk Modelers Working on Tools for Gauging Cyber Attack Risk
Dec 23 2014 // Even as the Sony Corp. cyber attack laid bare the kinds of vulnerabilities that typically drive companies to buy insurance policies, the lack of a risk model for insurers means such protection is not always easy to...
Risk Modelers Aim to Gauge Risks of ‘Cyber Hurricane’
Dec 22 2014 // Even as the Sony Corp. cyber attack laid bare the kinds of vulnerabilities that typically drive companies to buy insurance policies, the lack of a risk model for insurers means such protection is not always easy to...
Sony Hack Reveals Need for Business, Government to Collaborate on Cyber Issues
Dec 21 2014 // Back-channel talks between Sony Pictures Entertainment and the White House to coordinate a response to a debilitating cyber-attack didn’t prevent a public disagreement over the studio’s decision to pull its...
Boston Children’s Hospital to Pay $40K Over Data Breach Allegations
Dec 19 2014 // Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH) has agreed to pay $40,000 and take steps to prevent future security violations following allegations related to a data breach that affected patient information, Massachusetts Attorney...
Sony’s Unprecedented Cyber Attack: Deep, Costly, Controversial
Dec 18 2014 // Sony Pictures’ decision to let Seth Rogen make a comedy about a plot to kill a head of state will potentially cost the studio hundreds of millions of dollars after a devastating cyber-attack linked to North...
