All the headlines from our Cyber Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 27 2014 // Liberty International Underwriters (LIU), part of Liberty Mutual Insurance, has collaborated with BitSight Technologies to provide LIU Data Insure policyholders with current ratings on their company’s information...
Feb 26 2014 // Target Corp. shares made strong gains after it reassured investors that customers were beginning to return to its U.S. stores, suggesting that the impact of a massive data breach may not be as severe as some had feared.The...
Feb 24 2014 // U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, citing the recent massive data theft at retailer Target Corp., urged Congress on Monday to enact a national standard for notifying consumers about such breaches.“This would empower...
Feb 24 2014 // When the acclaimed television drama series Homeland climaxed with a devious plot by terrorists to kill the U.S. vice president by hacking into his electronic pacemaker, critics mocked the ludicrousness of the idea deeming...
Feb 24 2014 // Those in the insurance industry have another errors and omission (E&O) risk to consider these days, and they have technology to thank for it. Anyone in the insurance industry that possesses, stores, transmits or...
Feb 24 2014 // Data thefts at U.S. retailers have rekindled enthusiasm in Congress for a single federal law on how customers should be notified about such breaches, but those efforts face the same roadblock as in the past: dozens of...
Feb 21 2014 // The Kentucky Department of Financial Institutions has created a task force aimed at preventing financial cybercrime. “The task force will help prevent cyberattacks from undermining the future integrity of the...
Feb 20 2014 // Casino giant Las Vegas Sands Corp. says hacking into their websites and internal systems last week went deeper than the company previously acknowledged.All of the Las Vegas-based company’s sites were down for six...
Feb 14 2014 // U.S. banks and retail groups announced on Thursday that they are joining forces to work on cybersecurity, a sign they are trying to move past recent squabbles over who is to blame for data breaches.The Financial Services...
Feb 12 2014 // Data thefts at U.S. retailers have rekindled enthusiasm in Congress for a single federal law on how customers should be notified about such breaches, but those efforts face the same roadblock as in the past: dozens of...
Jan 30 2014 // A top official from New York State’s Department of Financial Services (DFS) recently spoke about the state’s property/casualty insurance markets, calling it overall very good but “a bit more of a mixed...
Jan 28 2014 // Aon’s London office announced that its risk management and human resources solutions units have “continued as a Champion of Data Privacy Day (DPD) according to the National Cyber Security Alliance.”As a...
Jan 27 2014 // Michaels Stores says it is investigating a possible company data security breach that may have affected its customers’ payment card information.The Irving, Texas, company said it launched the probe after learning of...
Jan 24 2014 // Fighting online data fraudsters is almost impossible as their ability to hack into new technology often outpaces companies’ efforts to protect it, senior businessmen and bankers gathering for the World Economic Forum...
Jan 20 2014 // A decade of lawmaking by U.S. states to ensure consumers are told when their data has been hacked still lets companies such as Target Corp. wait weeks or even months to disclose security breaches.Forty-six of 50 U.S....
Jan 17 2014 // Aon Global Risk Consulting, the risk management consulting arm of Aon plc has conducted further research to understand more about organizations’ attitudes to the top threats they face in today’s hyper connected...
Jan 16 2014 // A bill backed by state Auditor Adam Edelen and a bipartisan group of lawmakers would require state and local government agencies to notify Kentuckians when their personal information is breached.The bill’s backers...
Jan 16 2014 // The chronic gap between the incomes of the richest and poorest citizens is seen as the risk that is most likely to cause serious damage globally in the coming decade, according to over 700 global experts contributing to...
Jan 15 2014 // Chubb Insurance Company of Europe SE announced the launch of the new edition of its MasterPackage for Technology Companies policy. It described the product as a “comprehensive first and third party policy to cater...
Jan 15 2014 // Neiman Marcus Group Ltd. is being investigated by states including Connecticut and Illinois over the theft of customer credit-card data by hackers, and a bank sued Target Corp. for its data breach during the holiday...