Latest Cyber Headlines
All the headlines from our Cyber Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Hacker Group Not So Anonymous Anymore
Sep 13 2011 // The computer hackers, chat room denizens and young people who comprise the loosely affiliated Internet collective known as Anonymous have increasingly turned to questionable tactics, drawing the attention of the FBI, the...
California Data Breach Shows Risk of Online Health Records
Aug 23 2011 // Until recently, medical files belonging to nearly 300,000 Californians sat unsecured on the Internet for the entire world to see. There were insurance forms, Social Security numbers and doctors’ notes. Among the...
Crum & Forster Launches New Service to Protect against Cyber Risk
Aug 17 2011 // Crum & Forster (C&F) has launched a new service to assist policyholders effectively manage and protect against cyber risk. Network attacks and privacy violations are occurring with increasing frequency. Even with...
Investors’ Suits Against News Corp. Directors Face Long Odds
Aug 15 2011 // News Corp. shareholders angry over the hacking scandal engulfing Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate face an uphill fight trying to hold company executives and directors responsible in court. In the nearly six weeks...
Hackers Hack Cyber Insurance Site
Aug 15 2011 // Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared in Insurance Journal’s Satire Issue, August 15, 2011. The content in this issue is not real and is not to be taken seriously. It’s supposed to be humorous....
Agents Say Insurers Out of Touch with Needs of Small Businesses
Aug 11 2011 // Insurance agents and brokers think that their insurance carriers may be out of touch with what the small business segment needs. For one, carriers have been busy coming out with new products and coverage enhancements for...
Britain Burns: Riots Spread through UK Cities
Aug 10 2011 // A wave of violence and looting raged across London and spread to three other major British cities on Tuesday, as authorities struggled to contain the country’s worst unrest since race riots set the capital ablaze in...
Raids by Cyber Thieves Are Unlikely to Stir Faster Global Action
Aug 4 2011 // A major new hacking attack underscores that governments and companies are losing the war against cyber thieves, but it’s unclear if the disclosure will prompt quicker global action against online break-ins. A U.S....
U.S. Experts Blame a Government for Cyber Attacks; Is It China?
Aug 3 2011 // Security experts have discovered the biggest series of cyber attacks to date, involving the infiltration of the networks of 72 organizations including the United Nations, governments and companies around the...
Willis’ Leisure Industry Report Highlights Vulnerability to Cyber Attacks
Aug 3 2011 // According to a new report from Willis Group Holdings – Willis Summer 2011 Leisure Newsletter – “vast quantities of personal, identifiable information collected by the leisure and hospitality industry has...
Leisure Industry Tempting Target for Cyber Pirates: Willis
Aug 2 2011 // The hospitality industry is a tempting target for an increasing number of cyber attacks. The vast quantities of personal, identifiable information collected by the leisure and hospitality industry puts the industry at...
Sony Insurer, Zurich, Files Suit to Deny Data Breach Coverage
Aug 1 2011 // One of Sony Corp’s insurers has asked a court to declare that it does not have to pay to defend the media and electronics conglomerate from mounting legal claims related to a massive data breach earlier this...
U.S. Cyber Arrests Seen Leading to More Hackers
Jul 22 2011 // The FBI’s arrest this week of 16 people who allegedly participated in high-profile cyber attacks is providing a treasure trove of information and will lead to further arrests, a U.S. law enforcement official told...
Zurich Says Its Policy for Sony Doesn’t Cover Data Breach
Jul 22 2011 // One of Sony Corp.’s insurers has asked a court to declare that it does not have to pay to defend the media and electronics conglomerate from mounting legal claims related to a massive data breach earlier this...
Sony Insurer, Zurich, Files Suit to Deny Data Breach Coverage
Jul 21 2011 // One of Sony Corp’s insurers has asked a court to declare that it does not have to pay to defend the media and electronics conglomerate from mounting legal claims related to a massive data breach earlier this...
9/11 Families Seek Meeting on News Corp. Phone Hacking Reports
Jul 21 2011 // Relatives of victims of the Sept. 11 attacks have asked to meet the FBI and the U.S. Justice Department to discuss the agencies’ preliminary inquiry into reports that News Corp. reporters may have tried to hack the...
Who Is Paying News Corp. Legal Bills? – D&O Coverage Heavily Involved
Jul 20 2011 // With executives from News Corp. and some of its subsidiaries heading for the exits, legal bills from the phone-hacking scandal rocking the company are no doubt stacking up. But depending on the companies’ directors...
U.S. Arrests 14 for Roles in PayPal Cyber Attack
Jul 20 2011 // U.S. authorities Tuesday arrested 16 people on charges they participated in major cyber attacks, including an attempt to cripple eBay’s PayPal web site as retribution for dropping Wiki Leaks as a client. FBI agents...
Motorsports Boss Mosely Offers to Underwrite Suits Against Murdoch
Jul 19 2011 // Former motor racing boss Max Mosley says he has agreed to financially underwrite lawsuits against News International, which owns the now defunct tabloid News of the World, by victims of its allegedly abusive reporting...
Murdoch’s Bow to Pressure; Will Attend UK Parliament’s Investigation
Jul 14 2011 // Rupert Murdoch on Thursday caved in to pressure from Britain’s parliament to answer questions over alleged crimes at one of his newspapers, setting up a showdown with lawmakers keen to break the media mogul’s...
