All the headlines from our Cyber Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 15 2015 // President Barack Obama’s bid to get Congress to pass stalled cybersecurity legislation is seen as having an uphill fight amid differences between Republicans and the administration over privacy safeguards and other...
Jan 14 2015 // President Barack Obama sought to rally Congress to pass stalled U.S. cybersecurity legislation, an effort that may face obstacles as tensions with key Republicans quickly began to surface.Obama announced Tuesday revised...
Jan 14 2015 // Cybervandalism, cyberterrorism, cyberwarfare. No matter what you call the recent attacks against Sony Pictures, we weren’t ready. And we won’t be ready until our nation — with the government and industry...
Jan 12 2015 // Over the past seven weeks, Sony Pictures’ chief executive has dealt with the fallout from a cyber attack he likens to having your house robbed and burned to the ground.But the devastating hack, he says, might end up...
Jan 12 2015 // IMA Inc. has named Tim Burke as the new director of cyber risk in its Denver, Colo. office. Burke expands IMA’s capabilities to address some of the most pressing issues facing companies regarding the ever changing...
Jan 12 2015 // InsuranceJournal.com asked readers what they thought was the most important property/casualty insurance story of 2014. Cyber risk came in on top, followed by news about Uber and ridesharing services. Here’s how the...
Jan 9 2015 // The U.K. government is one step ahead of hackers trying to turn off the country’s lights — for now.The prospect of cyber-attacks on the nation’s power network is major threat to the country’s...
Jan 1 2015 // Just three days before cyber-attackers crippled Sony Pictures, the hackers sent an e-mail to executives Michael Lynton and Amy Pascal that said they would do great damage to the company if they weren’t paid off.The...
Dec 31 2014 // The hacked are itching to hack back.So say a dozen security specialists and former law enforcement officials who described an intensifying and largely unspoken sense of unease inside many companies after the recent breach...
Dec 28 2014 // Offering customers discounts in future purchases and free credit monitoring —strategies used by Target after its large-scale data breach — may raise suspicions rather than satisfy customers’ sense of justice,...
Dec 23 2014 // Sony Pictures Entertainment has been sued by two self-described former employees who accuse the movie studio of failing to protect Social Security numbers, healthcare records, salaries and other data from computer hackers...
Dec 23 2014 // Even as the Sony Corp. cyber attack laid bare the kinds of vulnerabilities that typically drive companies to buy insurance policies, the lack of a risk model for insurers means such protection is not always easy to...
Dec 22 2014 // Even as the Sony Corp. cyber attack laid bare the kinds of vulnerabilities that typically drive companies to buy insurance policies, the lack of a risk model for insurers means such protection is not always easy to...
Dec 21 2014 // Back-channel talks between Sony Pictures Entertainment and the White House to coordinate a response to a debilitating cyber-attack didn’t prevent a public disagreement over the studio’s decision to pull its...
Dec 19 2014 // Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH) has agreed to pay $40,000 and take steps to prevent future security violations following allegations related to a data breach that affected patient information, Massachusetts Attorney...
Dec 18 2014 // Sony Pictures’ decision to let Seth Rogen make a comedy about a plot to kill a head of state will potentially cost the studio hundreds of millions of dollars after a devastating cyber-attack linked to North Korea.The...
Dec 17 2014 // Technology will give fraudsters an edge in 2015, but it will also provide new tools for organizations and investigators, according to three experts from the Austin, Texas-based Association of Certified Fraud Examiners...
Dec 15 2014 // Sony Corp.’s movie studio could face tens of millions of dollars in costs from the massive computer hack that hobbled its operations and exposed sensitive data, according to cybersecurity experts who have studied...
Dec 15 2014 // Cyber liability insurance isn’t just for large corporations anymore.Demand for cyber liability insurance is now coming from middle-sized and small businesses, according to an insurance CEO who believes the market...
Dec 12 2014 // Farmers Insurance is set to begin providing insurance and financial services to Connecticut consumers Jan. 1, 2015, pending regulatory approvals, according to company executives who recently briefed local media...