Latest Cyber Headlines
All the headlines from our Cyber Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Media/Professional Insurance Offers Expanded Cyber-Risk Coverage
Aug 17 2005 // Media/Professional Insurance of Kansas City, Mo. has released an enhanced policy form for its CyberLiability Plus (TM) coverage, which protects Web-based businesses and their content against liability. The original policy...
Business Leaders Launch Campaign to Combat Data Fraud, Losses
Jul 22 2005 // After a string of high-profile data thefts and losses, business leaders this week announced an education campaign to better protect sensitive client information from hackers and other thieves. “The fraudsters are...
Lack of confidence in cyber security has economic, political effects
Jun 19 2005 // News Currents Americans share a lack of confidence in the Internet that could have political consequences. In addition, the lack of action by government to boost security of the digital infrastructure is manifesting itself...
Avoiding A Victim Mentality: How to Protect Yourself from Spam and Viruses
Jun 6 2005 // Small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) are bigger targets for spam and viruses than they think–and the insurance industry is more at risk than most. For an act to be deemed malicious or damaging, there has to be a...
Avoiding A Victim Mentality: How to Protect Your Agency from Spam and Viruses
Jun 6 2005 // Small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) are bigger targets for spam and viruses than they think-and the insurance industry is more at risk than most. For an act to be deemed malicious or damaging, there has to be a...
Avoiding A Victim Mentality: How to Protect Your Agency from Spam and Viruses
Jun 6 2005 // Small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) are bigger targets for spam and viruses than they think-and the insurance industry is more at risk than most. For an act to be deemed malicious or damaging, there has to be a...
Protecting Agency Security Takes Center Stage
Jun 6 2005 // High profile cases of identity theft have been all over the general press in recent weeks. We have seen from these cases just how devastating an impact these security breaches can have on the reputations of the firms...
For Agents Facing Evil Internet Wizards, Security is a Matter of Liability as Well as Downtime
Jun 6 2005 // Viruses, Worms and Hackers, Oh My! In 2001, Boston-area independent agent Peter Anderson noticed that his agency’s network server was dramatically losing hard disk space. The last time he’d checked it, there...
Assurex Global Appoints Three Senior Executives
Mar 30 2005 // Columbus, Ohio-based Assurex Global has announced the appointment of three senior executives to its leadership team: Kelli K. Black, executive vice president and COO; Curt C. Anderson, vice president, finance; and Paul H....
Cyber Risk
Mar 21 2005 // Nuts & Bolts: ISO introduced a new line of insurance to cover cyber risk. The new program includes policy contract forms, underwriting rules, loss costs (projections of future claims) and an advisory application...
ChoicePoint: ‘Insurance Industry Databases Were Not Compromised’
Mar 7 2005 // ChoicePoint’s Clue Auto, Clue Property and Current Carrier insurance industry databases were not in any way involved or compromised by the fraud ring that obtained data from other ChoicePoint databases of public...
Cyber Risk
Feb 21 2005 // Nuts & Bolts: This new program from ISO includes policy contract forms, underwriting rules, loss costs (projections of future claims) and an advisory application supplemented by an advisory underwriting guide. While...
AIU Underwrites ScanAlert’s Japan Hacker Coverage
Oct 5 2004 // Napa Calif.-based ScanAlert announced that AIU Insurance Japan, a division of AIG and the largest foreign-affiliated P/C insurer in Japan, is underwriting a new hacker insurance program for all “HACKER SAFE”...
Right This Way! Hotels Make Room for Risk Management
Aug 23 2004 // In the months after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the U.S. hospitality industry took a one-two punch. Travel and tourism plummeted as worried Americans canceled vacation plans and cautious businesses cut back on trips....
Is It Time to Take Your Agency Wireless’
Jul 5 2004 // Wireless can make sense because you can be mobile while still being connected to the agency’s network. Now the information is at the producer’s fingertips. The insurance industry seems to have embraced wireless...
Is It Time to Take Your Agency Wireless’
Jun 21 2004 // The insurance industry seems to have embraced wireless communications for its method of out-of-the-office computing. It is a hugely popular means of transmitting data, with millions of wireless Internet subscribers’...
Assurex Technology Gives Risk Mgrs.24/7 Capability
Apr 20 2004 // Assurex Global, the world’s largest privately held risk management, commercial insurance and employee benefits broker group, announced the launch of new software to enhance communication and information-sharing among...
NAIW Dallas to Present Cyber Crime Class
Apr 7 2004 // NAIW Dallas Inc. announced they are sponsoring NAIW’s newest education program—Cyber Crime: The Hidden Exclusions. The program was developed exclusively for NAIW, will take place May 28 in Dallas at the Wyndam...
The Strange Saga of Near North National Group’s Michael Segal
Jan 26 2004 // Powerful Friends, Enemy Insiders and Embezzlement Charges We are destroyed as of today,” Michael Segal, owner of Chicago-based Near North National Group, told me several weeks ago in his 20th-floor office in the John...
The Strange Saga of Near North National Group’s Michael Segal
Jan 26 2004 // Powerful Friends, Enemy Insiders and Embezzlement Charges We are destroyed as of today,” Michael Segal, owner of Chicago-based Near North National Group, told me several weeks ago in his 20th-floor office in the John...
