All the headlines from our Cyber Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 6 2015 // The U.S. Senate will not vote on a cyber security bill until September, after lawmakers return from a four-week recess and consider the nuclear agreement with Iran, the chamber’s leaders said on Wednesday.Some...
Aug 6 2015 // Harman International Industries Inc., the maker of the audio system in the Jeep Cherokee that was hacked remotely, said the software flaw that allowed that incident isn’t in infotainment systems it supplies to other...
Aug 3 2015 // The cybersecurity issues that led Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV to recall 1.4 million vehicles this month could pose a problem for cars and trucks from other automakers, the top U.S. auto safety regulator said on...
Aug 3 2015 // Data breaches at big retailers are becoming almost commonplace, and class actions by affected consumers are typically not far behind.Now, a federal appeals court in Chicago has made it harder for retailers who are hacked...
Jul 31 2015 // A researcher is advising drivers not to use a mobile app for General Motors Co.’s OnStar vehicle communications system, saying hackers can exploit a security flaw in the product to unlock cars and start engines...
Jul 31 2015 // Allianz Insurance has joined forces with cyber risk management company, Pentura, to provide commercial customers with help and guidance to improve cyber security.As part of the partnership, Pentura, which is based in...
Jul 31 2015 // A public-private, cyber-catastrophe reinsurance arrangement would improve the UK’s resilience against the growing threat of cyber risks in this interconnected world, according to a cyber report released this...
Jul 30 2015 // Cloudsurance has launched a cloud insurance program designed for modern cloud consumers.Cloudsurance is a cloud insurance program designed for cloud consumers and can help mitigate against the inherent risks of cloud...
Jul 27 2015 // Fiat Chrysler will recall 1.4 million vehicles in the United States to install software to prevent hackers from gaining remote control of the engine, steering and other systems in what federal officials said was the first...
Jul 23 2015 // ACE Group announced that Tim Stapleton has joined the company as Vice President and Cyber Insurance Product Manager, a newly created position, for ACE Overseas General, the company’s general insurance business...
Jul 23 2015 // The Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST), an organization supporting the healthcare industry in advancing the state of information protection, has partnered with Willis North America to identify a common approach...
Jul 22 2015 // A three-hour shutdown of the New York Stock Exchange on the same day that a network failure halted all United Airlines flights in the U.S. had people across the country thinking one thing: cyber-attack.It wasn’t, but...
Jul 22 2015 // A pair of veteran cybersecurity researchers have shown they can use the Internet to turn off a car’s engine as it drives, sharply escalating the stakes in the debate about the safety of increasingly connected cars...
Jul 20 2015 // Specialist lines underwriting agency CFC has formed a partnership with cyber security ratings agency, BitSight Technologies.CFC will use BitSight’s ratings tool to provide insight into the cyber threats that their...
Jul 20 2015 // A cyber attack on the U.S. power grid in the Northeast would have far-reaching implications including the loss of lives, economic losses of as much as a trillion dollars, the disruption of water supplies and...
Jul 20 2015 // Producers, brokers and insurers are all targeted by cyber attackers looking for personal identifiable information (PII) that can be used to open fraudulent credit cards. To protect PII, in April the Cybersecurity (EX) Task...
Jul 15 2015 // The U.S. Department of Justice and FBI said today that they along with an international coalition of law enforcers have shut down the underground computer hacking forum known as Darkode and filed criminal charges against...
Jul 14 2015 // Specialist lines underwriting agency, CFC, has extended its cyber product suite with the launch of a new policy developed specifically for U.S. healthcare providers.According to CFC’s Cyber Practice Leader, Vicky...
Jul 9 2015 // China’s parliament has published a draft cyber security law that consolidates Beijing’s control over data, with potentially significant consequences for internet service providers and multinational firms doing...
Jul 8 2015 // A cyber attack on the U.S. power grid in the Northeast would have far-reaching implications including the loss of lives, economic losses of as much as a trillion dollars, the disruption of water supplies and...