Latest Cyber Headlines
All the headlines from our Cyber Topic Page, ordered by recency.
North Carolina Blue Cross Defends Data Sharing
Jul 16 2013 // Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina shares private information of hundreds of thousands of its clients to an outside company that helps design its software. The company told The News & Observer of Raleigh that...
Personal Data Of 2.5M People Compromised In California
Jul 3 2013 // Data breaches put the personal information of 2.5 million people in the California at risk, according to a report released Monday. State Attorney General Kamala Harris released the report showing 131 breaches of consumer...
Rockwood Programs Adds Cyber Liability to Coverage Portfolio
Jun 18 2013 // Rockwood Programs has added cyber liability to its portfolio of management and professional liability products. The coverage can be attached to an underlying Rockwood account as an endorsement, with a separate sub-limit....
CFC Underwriting Upgrades Cyber Policy
Jun 17 2013 // Lloyd’s underwriting agency, CFC has made a major upgrade to its flagship cyber and privacy product policy in order to protect customers against the changing face of cyber crime and react to the constant changes in...
Regulators Examining Insurers’ Cyber Security Readiness
Jun 17 2013 // New York’s top financial regulator has asked some of the largest U.S. insurance companies to disclose details on their preparedness for cyber attacks, following a similar request to major banks earlier this year. The...
Hiscox Adds Crime, Data Breach, Privacy Options to PL Portfolio
Jun 13 2013 // Hiscox has launched phase two of their Hiscox Professional Liability Portfolio, adding two additional coverage options to the existing portfolio. Professional services firms can now add crime and data breach and privacy...
ThinkRisk Launches Comprehensive Content, Data Security, Privacy Program
Jun 13 2013 // Ryan Specialty Group’s Think Risk has launched [in]TELLIGENCE to address evolving and often overlooked operational exposures coming from technology and its effect on businesses. Recent surveys have reported that more...
U.S. Charges 8 with Cybercrime Against Financial Institutions, Government
Jun 13 2013 // Federal prosecutors in New Jersey on Wednesday unveiled criminal charges against eight people accused of trying to steal at least $15 million from U.S. customers in an international cybercrime scheme targeting accounts at...
ThinkRisk Announces [in]TELLIGENCE℠
Jun 12 2013 // New York, NY, 6/12/13 – Technology continues to transform businesses everywhere. Recent surveys have reported that more than half of small to mid-size U.S. firms have already experienced at least one data breach. The...
Geneva Association’s Fitzpatrick on Systemic Risks, Nat Cats, ILS, Cyber Risks
Jun 11 2013 // When the Geneva Association’s presentation on how and why governments and re/insurers need to work more closely adjourned, we were able to talk to the organization’s Secretary General, John Fitzpatrick, a...
U.S. on Offense in Cyber War: Building Command Center, Hiring Warriors
Jun 7 2013 // On the site of a former military golf course where President Dwight Eisenhower once played, the future of U.S. warfare is rising in the shape of the new $358 million headquarters for the military’s Cyber Command. The...
China Says It Has Data on U.S. Cyber Attacks, Calls for Cooperation
Jun 6 2013 // China’s top Internet security official says he has “mountains of data” pointing to extensive U.S. hacking aimed at China, but it would be irresponsible to blame Washington for such attacks, and called for...
Silicon Valley At Front Line Of Global Cyber War
Jun 5 2013 // Chinese President Xi Jinping and American counterpart Barack Obama will talk cyber-security this week in California, but experts say the state’s Silicon Valley and its signature high-tech firms should provide the...
Cyber Security Threats Pose ‘Stealthy, Insidious’ Danger – U.S. Defense Chief
Jun 3 2013 // Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said on Friday that cyber threats posed a “quiet, stealthy, insidious” danger to the United States and other nations, and called for “rules of the road” to guide...
New York Regulator Asks Insurers About Readiness for Cyber Threats
May 29 2013 // New York’s top financial regulator has asked some of the largest U.S. insurance companies to disclose details on their preparedness for cyber attacks, following a similar request to major banks earlier this year. New...
Fearon Joins Miller for Prof. Indemnity, Tech and Cyber Risks
May 28 2013 // Nick Fearon has joined UK-based Miller Insurance Services as a senior producer and broker to develop a book of business that includes professional indemnity, technology and cyber risks. “Nick has strong,...
Cyber Attacks On Banks More Serious Than Public Realizes
May 20 2013 // The series of cyber attacks that repeatedly knocked major U.S. banking websites offline in the past nine months has been more powerful than the general public realizes, government officials and security experts told the...
Homeowners not the Only Line of Insurance Affected by Texas Weather
May 20 2013 // Nature’s Perils Drive Cost of Agent E&O Coverage, Too It’s well known that Texas has some of the highest homeowners premiums in the nation – in large part due to the state’s vulnerability to...
Government to Share Cyber Security Information with Private Sector
May 15 2013 // The U.S. government will use classified information about software vulnerabilities for the first time to protect companies outside of the military industrial complex, top officials told Reuters this week. Secretary of...
Alabama University Launches Cyber Threat Detection Company
May 15 2013 // In a private-public partnership, the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) has launched Malcovery, an intelligence company specializing in cyber threat detection, to help businesses protect themselves from...
