Latest Cyber Headlines
All the headlines from our Cyber Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Defending Data
Apr 6 2009 // Data Security Breaches Present Emerging Risks and Opportunities for Agents Data security represents both a new market opportunity to sell insurance coverage and a new risk – especially for independent insurance...
Great American Insurance Introduces Cyber Risk Policy
Mar 27 2009 // Great American Insurance Group introduced a new modular policy providing coverage for a variety of cyber risks. The ISO based-Internet Liability and Network Protection Policy (ILNPP) was developed to protect commercial...
Defending Data
Mar 23 2009 // Data Security Breaches Present Emerging Risks and Opportunities for Agents Data security represents both a new market opportunity to sell insurance coverage and a new risk — especially for independent insurance...
Defending Data
Mar 23 2009 // Data Security Breaches Present Emerging Risks and Opportunities for Agents Data security represents both a new market opportunity to sell insurance coverage and a new risk — especially for independent insurance...
Arkansas Lawmakers Back Seat Belt, Teen Driver, Credit Report Laws
Feb 18 2009 // New restrictions on teen drivers and legislation allowing police to pull over motorists for not wearing their seat belts advanced in the Arkansas Legislature. Meanwhile, senators gave final approval to a bill that requires...
Lockton Launches Outsourcing, Data Breaches Risk Management Service
Feb 2 2009 // Lockton announced that is launching a unique set of risk management services to help companies address outsourcing risk and corporate response plans for data breaches. “These services are supported by leading cyber...
Fireman’s Fund Insures Payment Card Security Breach for Retail Stores
Jan 6 2009 // Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co. is introducing the first coverage for retailers that experience a breach of their payment card security system. According to the insurer, a single breach of a payment card security system...
AIG Crisis Highlights the Need for Insurance Professionalism
Nov 2 2008 // Are You an Insurance Professional or an Insurance Hack? Editor’s Note: The following commentary was originally published on InsuranceJournal.com. The Letter to the Editor, on page N41, is in response to this...
Experts Warn Businesses of Financial Impact of Cyber Risk
Oct 24 2008 // Experts in cyber risk, citing financial mismanagement behind the current economic crisis, are warning business executives they need to better understand how to manage their own cyber systems to avoid another crisis. The...
AIG Crisis Highlights the Need for Insurance Professionalism
Oct 10 2008 // American International Group’s meltdown may serve at least one (if not more) positive purpose: spotlighting the difference between the insurance professional and the non-professional. Insurance professionals will...
Lurking Cyber Risks
Oct 6 2008 // Agents Can Become a Trusted Expert for Unaware Businesses A family-run crafts store opens in a strip mall and, after much hard work and long hours, begins to flourish. The store takes credit cards, contracting with a...
Thousands of Floridians Become Victims of ID Theft
Sep 30 2008 // Florida resident Stephen Carlisle was not alarmed by the letter he received from Bank of New York Mellon Shareowners Services, notifying him that a data breach had exposed sensitive information from thousands of...
Most of Louisiana’s Coast Flooded by Ike
Sep 16 2008 // Northerly winds began blowing into southern Louisiana on Monday, a change that officials hoped would help clear lingering floodwaters pushed in by Hurricane Ike. Tim Destri, a National Weather Service meteorologist said...
Feds Charge 11 in Biggest-Ever Identity Theft Case
Sep 1 2008 // Authorities in Boston have cracked what is believed to be the largest federal hacking and identity theft case ever, involving the theft and sale of more than 41 million credit and debit card numbers. Eleven people,...
I.I.I. Offers Tips on Identity Theft Protection, Coverage
Aug 15 2008 // The U.S. Justice Department’s announcement last week that it had uncovered one of the largest identity theft schemes in U.S. history is a reminder for consumers to protect their financial information, say the...
Feds Charge 11 in Biggest-Ever Identity Theft Case
Aug 7 2008 // Authorities in Boston have cracked what is believed to be the largest federal hacking and identity theft case ever, involving the theft and sale of more than 41 million credit and debit card numbers. Eleven people,...
Survey: Private Firms More Exposed to Liability Risks, But Less Protected
Jul 30 2008 // More than one-third of U.S. businesses do not purchase any type of management or professional liability insurance. Yet, two out of three U.S. private companies have experienced some type of event related to management or...
New Jersey Mayor Pleads Guilty in Insurance Bribe Scheme
Jun 16 2008 // A former New Jersey lawmaker ensnared in a federal bribery investigation has pleaded guilty to federal and state corruption charges and has resigned as mayor of Orange. Mims Hackett Jr., 67, admitted he took a $5,000 bribe...
HSB Offers Data Compromise Coverage for Small to Mid-Size Firms
Jun 4 2008 // The Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co. has a new data compromise insurance coverage that helps businesses respond to data breaches by covering the cost of client notifications and supplying services such as...
New Jersey Mayor Pleads Guilty in Insurance Bribe Scheme
May 29 2008 // A former New Jersey lawmaker ensnared in a federal bribery investigation pleaded guilty to federal and state corruption charges Tuesday and resigned as mayor of Orange. Mims Hackett Jr. admitted he took a $5,000 bribe to...
