Latest Cyber Headlines
All the headlines from our Cyber Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Survey: Private Firms Expect Growth, Employee Theft and Data Breach
Oct 27 2010 // Nearly half (44 percent) of private company executives expect their firms will add jobs by year end, and more than half (54 percent) plan to expand product or service offerings. Another 12 percent of those same executives...
MDAdvantage Launches Protection for Business Side of Medicine
Oct 1 2010 // To help New Jersey physicians protect against the rising number of business risks beyond the practice of medicine, MDAdvantage has introduced Supreme Advantage insurance for employment practices liability, privacy and data...
Congress Takes Aim at Cybersecurity Threats
Sep 23 2010 // Proposed cybersecurity legislation circulating on Capitol Hill would give the president the power to declare an emergency in the case of big online attacks and force some businesses to beef up their cyber defenses and...
Connecticut Insurance Regulators Requiring Data Breach Notification
Aug 27 2010 // Five days. That’s how quickly agents and insurers must now notify Connecticut insurance regulators about a possible leak of clients’ personal information. The new bulletin, released earlier this month, follows...
NAS Managed Care Errors & Omissions Adds Cyber Liability
Aug 6 2010 // NAS Insurance Services has enhanced its managed care product with an e-MD cyber liability coverage enhancement. Because of increased regulations on patient privacy, HIPAA and customer notification, managed care...
Climate Scientists Praise Report on Hacked E-mail Scandal
Jul 8 2010 // Leading climate scientists on Thursday welcomed a British report that cleared researchers of exaggerating the effects of global warming and said they hoped it would restore faith in the fight against climate change [See IJ...
Health Insurer to Pay Connecticut $250K for Data Breach
Jul 8 2010 // A California-based health insurance company has agreed to pay Connecticut $250,000 for losing a disk drive containing private information of 1.5 million customers, including nearly 450,000 state residents. Attorney General...
It’s Nothing Personal … Just Business!
Jul 5 2010 // Businesses Accounts Are Vulnerable When It Comes to Financial Computer Fraud People use the phrase “it’s nothing personal, just business” all the time. It covers a wide range of topics and situations. If...
It’s Nothing Personal … Just Business
Jul 5 2010 // Businesses Accounts Are Vulnerable When It Comes to Financial Computer Fraud People use the phrase “it’s nothing personal, just business” all the time. It covers a wide range of topics and situations. If...
OneBeacon Broadens @vantage for Information Technology Firms
May 26 2010 // OneBeacon Technology Group announced enhancements to its @vantage for Information Technology product designed for hardware, software and telecommunications companies. Two primary coverage areas have been broadened to...
The Hanover Partners With Identity Theft 911
May 18 2010 // The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. has partnered with Identity Theft 911, an identity theft management and data-breach response service. The arrangement will enable The Hanover’s agents to provide their mid-size...
ACE USA Creates Data Breach Team, Enhancement Options
Apr 27 2010 // ACE USA, the U.S.-based retail operating division of the ACE Group, has made new enhancements to its privacy protection and network liability protection policies, including a suite of independent data breach specialists...
Washington Creates Data Security Law
Apr 8 2010 // Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire has signed legislation into law that encourages financial institutions to comply wtih that data security requirements — or face potential liability if a data breach...
Midlands Management Launches Data Breach Coverage
Mar 12 2010 // Midlands Management Corp., an operating subsidiary of PMA Capital Corp., has started a new program with data breach coverage. It is designed for clients in industries that are data intensive and required to comply with...
Google, Facebook Face Heat from Cyber-Bullying Cases
Mar 9 2010 // The Internet was built on freedom of expression. Society wants someone held accountable when that freedom is abused. And major Internet companies like Google and Facebook are finding themselves caught between those...
Audit: Oregon Data Security Still Needs Fixing
Mar 8 2010 // An audit by the Oregon Secretary of State’s office says there has been little progress in fixing serious gaps in the state’s data security systems. Auditors wrote in the report that the weaknesses could...
Security Breach Notification Laws Reinforce Need for Cyber Insurance
Mar 4 2010 // With more than 40 states now enforcing privacy and security breach notification laws, underwriters are working hard to scoop up the business this niche creates, while also tweaking their policy forms to provide the...
‘Hackers’ Prompt Lockton to Advise Risk Managers on Cyber Thieves
Feb 25 2010 // “A new wave of hacker attacks is breaching corporate and outsourced information systems with one information security firm recently detailing coordinated hacker attacks on 2,400 companies and government agencies...
U.S. Businesses Face Increasing Threats From Chinese Cyber Attacks
Jan 27 2010 // U.S. businesses and government agencies are facing increasing risks of potential cyber attacks from China, according to a recent report. And IT departments that react defensively to such attacks may not be doing enough to...
ACE Europe Appoints Ainslie Technology and Cyber Liability Underwriter
Jan 8 2010 // The ACE European Group has appointed Iain Ainslie to the role of Technology and Cyber Liability Underwriter. ACE said the appointment underscores its “commitment to enhancing its service offering and presence in this...
