All the headlines from our Cyber Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 28 2018 // Equifax Inc. on Wednesday avoided fines in a deal with eight states’ banking regulators over a data breach that compromised sensitive data of more than 145 million people, as the credit reporting agency agreed to...
Jun 28 2018 // New malpractice claims against lawyers are being driven by inadequate safeguards against conflicts of interest, along with participation in certain expanding and complex practice areas, according to a new study by...
Jun 27 2018 // Hackers from Russia are infecting Ukrainian companies with malicious software to create “back doors” for a large, coordinated attack, Ukraine’s cyber police chief told Reuters on Tuesday. The hackers are...
Jun 26 2018 // Chubb announced that it has enhanced its cyber incident response management capabilities and launched two new ways of accessing the service: a mobile application and a dedicated website.As the threat of cyber risks facing...
Jun 22 2018 // A majority of executives around the world feel their organizations can do better when it comes to learning from their past cyber mistakes, according to the results of a global survey conducted by The Economist Intelligence...
Jun 22 2018 // Investors’ shaky confidence in virtual currencies took another hit after crypto exchange Bithumb, ranked seventh in the world by traded value on Coinmarketcap.com, suffered a hack that saw about 35 billion won ($32...
Jun 20 2018 // While 47 percent of small businesses suffered at least one cyber attack in the past year, only 35 percent of them took action following a cyber security incident to mitigate against another. Forty-four percent of small...
Jun 20 2018 // South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb said 35 billion won ($31.5 million) worth of virtual coins were stolen by hackers, the second local exchange targeted in just over a week as cyber thieves exposed the high risks...
Jun 19 2018 // Insurer Liberty Holdings faced questions from South Africa’s Information Regulator on Monday, a day after the company said it had become the victim of a cyber attack.The regulator said it was concerned about the data...
Jun 18 2018 // Liberty Holdings Ltd., the South African insurer midway through an overhaul to improve profit, said it refused a ransom demand after hackers breached its information-technology infrastructure and accessed some emails. The...
Jun 18 2018 // Corvus Insurance, an insurtech managing general agent, has released a new cyber insurance offering for organizations with up to $1 billion in annual revenue.The new Smart Cyber Insurance product includes the features of a...
Jun 18 2018 // Insurance is supposed to make you feel safe, but even those who sell special cyber-security protection packages worry about hacking threats.What makes Jerry Hourihan lose sleep is that everyone’s information already...
Jun 18 2018 // The New York Attorney General’s Office (NYAG) this year released a report outlining a record number of data breach notices filed with the office in 2017 – the highest since NYAG started receiving data breach...
Jun 18 2018 // Two people have filed a class-action lawsuit against Hawaii restaurant chain Zippy’s.Zippy’s alerted its customers April 27 that it experienced a data breach at all of its 25 restaurant, Napoleon’s...
Jun 15 2018 // The U.K.’s data-protection watchdog said it’s investigating a cyber attack at Dixons Carphone Plc that affected almost 6 million payment cards.The retailer, already struggling with a slowing mobile-phone market...
Jun 15 2018 // Big “I” Markets, the online market access system available exclusively to Big “I” members, has partnered with Coalition to offer its member agents access to cyber and technology errors &...
Jun 14 2018 // Specialist insurance provider, CFC Underwriting, has launched its first insurance solution for financial institutions. CFC’s Investment Management Insurance (IMI) policy is the first in a suite of products designed...
Jun 13 2018 // The Bank of England told banks to be ready for war against the mounting threat of crippling cyber attacks.“I would like our firms to be on a WAR footing: withstand; absorb; recover,” Lyndon Nelson, deputy chief...
Jun 13 2018 // British mobile phone and electricals retailer Dixons Carphone has become the victim of a major cyber attack for the second time in three years after discovering unauthorized access to its payment card data.Shares in Dixons...
Jun 12 2018 // Although the insurance industry may have had plenty of time to wrap its mind around managing physical property threats, what about the newly growing area of non-physical threats?Panelists at the 2018 PLUS Cyber Symposium,...