At Least 50 U.S. Government Employees Hit With Spyware, Prompting New Rules March 29, 2023 By Christopher Bing At least 50 U.S. government staffers stationed in 10 countries were targeted with commercial hacking tools, commonly known as spyware,...
Boy Scouts of America Bankruptcy Plan Upheld Despite Insurers’ Objections March 28, 2023 By Chad Hemenway A federal judge on March 28 denied an appeal, largely made by insurers, to strike down the Boy Scouts of...
TikTok Represents ‘Strategic’ Challenge, Says Top Cyber Official March 28, 2023 By Stephen Nellis The head of the U.S. National Security Agency’s cybersecurity directorate on Monday said TikTok represents a “strategic issue” rather than...
Alphabet Seeks Dismissal of Antitrust Lawsuit Over Google’s Online Ads March 28, 2023 By Diane Bartz Google parent Alphabet asked a U.S. federal judge on Monday to dismiss a Justice Department lawsuit alleging that the search...
Climate Activists Tell Insurance CEOs to Stop Covering Carbon Projects ‘Immediately’ March 28, 2023 A group of climate activists has called on 30 insurance company bosses to “immediately” stop underwriting new fossil fuel projects...
Regulator Sues Top Crypto Exchange Binance, CEO for ‘Willful Evasion’ March 28, 2023 By Tom Wilson and Angus Berwick The world’s biggest crypto exchange Binance and its CEO and founder Changpeng Zhao were sued by the U.S. Commodity Futures...
FDIC Is Probing Management’s Conduct in SVB, Signature Bank Failures March 28, 2023 By Stephanie Stoughton A top US banking regulator has launched investigations into managers’ conduct in the Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank failures....
Supreme Court Lets Chevron Foe Donziger’s Contempt Conviction Stand March 27, 2023 By Nate Raymond The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a disbarred environmental lawyer’s challenge to his criminal contempt conviction after...
Markets/Coverages: CFC Adds Professional Liability, Tech E&O to Admitted Offerings March 27, 2023 Specialist insurance provider CFC recently announced the expansion of its admitted product suite with the addition of professional liability and...
Juul, Altria Face First Trial Over Claims of Marketing E-Cigarettes to Teens March 27, 2023 By Brendan Pierson E-cigarette company Juul Labs Inc. and its former largest investor, Marlboro maker Altria Group Inc., will face their first U.S....