All the headlines from our Cyber Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 27 2023 // The European Union is considering broadening the scope of proposed cybersecurity labeling rules that would affect not just Amazon, Alphabet’s Google and Microsoft but also banks and airlines, according to the latest...
Nov 23 2023 // This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync.In the dynamic and data-driven world of insurance, safeguarding sensitive information is paramount. Consumers entrust insurance carriers with a wealth of personal,...
Nov 22 2023 // Australia will undertake an economy-wide revamp of its cybersecurity protections including revised data laws, mandatory reporting and a new nationwide cyber council in response to several significant hacks targeting...
Nov 22 2023 // Specialist insurer CFC announced a major upgrade to its packaged insurance policies for professional services businesses.Brokers selling CFC’s professional liability policies can offer SME clients add-on cyber cover...
Nov 21 2023 // Australia’s markets regulator wants companies and directors to prioritize cyber resilience, warning it will take action against businesses that fail to make reasonable investments to protect themselves.Australian...
Nov 21 2023 // Some K-12 public schools are racing to improve protection against the threat of online attacks, but lax cybersecurity means thousands of others are vulnerable to ransomware gangs that can steal confidential data and...
Nov 20 2023 // The head of Australia’s second-largest telco Optus resigned on Monday, cutting short a more than three-year tenure marred by a massive network-wide outage and one of Australia’s largest data breaches.Parent...
Nov 20 2023 // LockBit, the prolific ransomware gang that has launched attacks recently on Boeing Co. and Industrial Commercial Bank of China Ltd., among others, has revised the way it tries to blackmail victims because it’s...
Nov 20 2023 // Ransomware attacks are up 95.41% globally in 2023 year over year, a trend showing no signs of slowing.The number of ransomware victims to date in 2023 (3,311) has already surpassed totals for the entirety of 2021 (3,048)...
Nov 20 2023 // The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on October 30 sued software company SolarWinds Corp. and its top information security executive, saying they defrauded investors by hiding cybersecurity weaknesses during a...
Nov 20 2023 // Global commercial insurance prices increased 3% in the third quarter of 2023, the same as the prior quarter, according to the Global Insurance Market Index released by insurance broker Marsh, a business of Marsh...
Nov 17 2023 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Howden and Argenta Syndicate Management.A summary of these new hires follows here. Howden Taps Marsh’s Bayon de La Tour as International Head of...
Nov 17 2023 // The FBI warned organizations to guard against the Scattered Spider hacking group, which has breached dozens of American organizations over the past year, stealing their sensitive data for extortion.The FBI alert follows a...
Nov 16 2023 // The chief information security officer at Clorox Co. has left the company as it works to recover from a hack that devastated its supply chain earlier this year.Amy Bogac departed after about two and a half years in the...
Nov 14 2023 // Within days of a cyberattack at its US unit, members of Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd.’s management were on a plane.Officials from the world’s largest lender arrived in the US over the weekend...
Nov 14 2023 // DP World Plc is slowly working through a backlog of more than 20,000 freight containers piled up at Australian ports following a crippling cyberattack, as labor strikes impede a return to normal operations.DP World, one of...
Nov 14 2023 // The state of Maine has begun notifying people whose personal information was included in a data breach impacting as many as 1.3 million individuals, state officials announced Thursday.The notifications began after the...
Nov 13 2023 // TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) – Nearly a month after a “security incident” with all the hallmarks of a ransomware attack, Kansas judicial officials are slowly renewing public access to court information. But for now,...
Nov 13 2023 // On Thursday, trades handled by the world’s largest bank in the globe’s biggest market traversed Manhattan on a USB stick.Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd.’s US unit had been hit by a...
Nov 13 2023 // DP World Plc is struggling to work through a backlog of 30,000 shipping containers piled up at ports across Australia as the company resumes operations after a cyberattack.Friday’s hack on DP World, one of the...