All the headlines from our Cyber Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 2 2015 // Uber Technologies Inc. said its database was access by an unauthorized third party last year, resulting in the possible theft of information on 50,000 drivers.The drivers, who are part of Uber’s mobile car-booking...
Feb 26 2015 // Cybersecurity is likely the most important issue that the New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) will face in 2015, and perhaps for many years to come after that, New York Financial Services Superintendent...
Feb 26 2015 // Medical identity theft jumped 22 percent last year as more U.S. health data becomes electronic and easier for cyber criminals to steal from doctors’ offices, hospitals and insurers.Incidents of medical identity theft...
Feb 25 2015 // The FBI said it’s close to finding the hackers responsible for the attack on health-insurance company Anthem Inc. that exposed personal data on about 80 million customers.Federal Bureau of Investigation officials are...
Feb 24 2015 // The Missouri Department of Insurance reported it received new information from Anthem that shows one-in-three Missourians’ personal information was compromised during a recent cyberattack on the health insurer. More...
Feb 23 2015 // Anthem Data Breach“The personally identifiable information apparently hacked at Anthem is exactly what tax fraud thieves use to make false refund claims that appear to be legitimate.” —Kevin Sullivan,...
Feb 23 2015 // Competition among property/casualty insurance carriers and the flow of capital into the industry are continuing to drive down rates in most U.S. commercial lines and conditions are particularly favorable for clients with...
Feb 18 2015 // While the overall cyber risk insurance market is growing tremendously, larger corporate clients have driven much of the expansion. Smaller companies, on the other hand, have not followed suit, Deputy U.S. Treasury...
Feb 13 2015 // President Barack Obama is set to announce a new cybersecurity executive order on Friday designed to encourage companies to share information about cyber threats, White House cybersecurity coordinator Michael Daniel told...
Feb 12 2015 // Anthem Inc. said on Wednesday its millions of customers can sign up for free credit monitoring and identity-theft protection services this week following a massive cyber attack involving stolen U.S. Social Security...
Feb 11 2015 // Just in time for Valentine’s Day comes research warning against the use of popular dating apps on corporate smartphones.An analysis conducted by IBM Security found that more than 60 percent of leading Android dating...
Feb 10 2015 // The hackers who stole millions of health insurance records from Anthem Inc. commandeered the credentials of five different employees while seeking to penetrate the company’s computer network — and they may have...
Feb 10 2015 // Connecticut’s tax commissioner is urging taxpayers expecting federal or state income tax refunds who may be affected by the Anthem data breach to file their taxes quickly.Kevin Sullivan, head of the Department of...
Feb 10 2015 // The U.S. government is creating a new agency to monitor cybersecurity threats, pooling and analyzing information on a spectrum of risks, a senior Obama administration official said on Tuesday.The Cyber Threat Intelligence...
Feb 10 2015 // Automakers are adding wireless technologies into vehicles without enough protection to keep hackers from interfering the operation of a car or stealing personal information, according to a report by U.S. Senator Edward...
Feb 9 2015 // New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) today released a report on cybersecurity in the New York insurance industry and announced a series of measures that DFS will take to help strengthen cyber hacking...
Feb 9 2015 // Competition among property/casualty insurance carriers and the flow of capital into the industry are continuing to drive down rates in most U.S. commercial lines and conditions are particularly favorable for clients with...
Feb 9 2015 // Utah state officials have seen what they describe as a sharp uptick in attempts to hack into state computers in the last two years, and they think it related to the NSA data center south of Salt Lake City.The increase...
Feb 9 2015 // A barrage of damaging cyber attacks is shaking up the security industry, with some businesses and organizations no longer assuming they can keep hackers at bay, and instead turning to waging a guerrilla war from within...
Feb 9 2015 // It’s a common saying in the cybersecurity industry that if you haven’t yet suffered a cyberattack, you soon will. According to the Identity Theft Resource Center, this year alone has seen more than 600 data...