SEC Account Hack Renews Spotlight on X’s Security Concerns January 10, 2024 By Zeba Siddiqui and Raphael Satter The hack of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s official account on X on Tuesday renewed concerns about the social...
Maryland Governor Signs Order on AI Use, Creates Cybersecurity Task Force January 10, 2024 By Brian Witte Maryland Gov. Wes Moore on Monday announced a starting point for addressing the use of artificial intelligence in state government,...
States and Congress Wrestle With Cybersecurity at Water Utilities January 3, 2024 By Marc Levy The tiny Aliquippa water authority in western Pennsylvania was perhaps the least-suspecting victim of an international cyberattack. It had never...
Title Insurer Reports Another Cybersecurity Event; Fitch Monitoring Ratings December 29, 2023 Less than a month after New York insurance regulators said a title insurer would pay $1 million for violations of...
Kansas Courts’ Computer Systems Coming Back Online Following Cyberattack December 19, 2023 By John Hanna TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) – The court system in Kansas has started bringing its computer system for managing cases back online,...
Apple-Backed Study Finds Rise in Data Breaches as iPhone Maker Defends Encryption December 12, 2023 By Stephen Nellis In the first nine months of 2023, U.S. data breaches increased by 20% compared to the full year 2022, according...
Federal Cyber Insurance Backstop Is Warranted With Focus on Catastrophic Risk November 28, 2023 By Chad Hemenway Much more work and collaboration needs to be done but the U.S. Treasury has reached a “tentative conclusion” that a...
Schools Look to Improve Cybersecurity, but Many Vulnerable to Ransomware November 21, 2023 By Alanna Durkin Some K-12 public schools are racing to improve protection against the threat of online attacks, but lax cybersecurity means thousands...
Viewpoint: ChatGPT, Laden With Hacker-Inserted Malware, Is Writing Code for Companies November 8, 2023 By Lou Steinberg If yours is like many companies, hackers have infiltrated a tool your software development teams are using to write code....
Ransomware, Extortion Claims See ‘Worrying Resurgence,’ Says Allianz November 8, 2023 Following two years of high but stable loss activity, 2023 has seen a “worrying resurgence” in ransomware and extortion claims...