All the headlines from our Cyber Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 27 2012 // Glatfelter Public Practice has introduced cyber liability & privacy crisis management expense coverage for municipalities and water related entities nationwide. Glatfelter Public Practice is part of Glatfelter Program...
Mar 22 2012 // The Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company (HSB), a part of Munich Re, has launched HSB Freestyle Advantage, an insurance product that combines equipment breakdown coverage with optional data compromise and...
Mar 19 2012 // This article is part of our Hot Insurance Markets for 2012 special feature.Healthcare is one of the country’s largest industries. Annual spending on healthcare in the U.S. tops $2.6 trillion, more than 16 percent of...
Mar 19 2012 // This article is part of our Hot Insurance Markets for 2012 special feature.The technology industry has been a growing sector in today’s economic environment and many insurers are responding by developing new products...
Mar 16 2012 // Company Directors must wake up to cyber threats or they risk litigation from all sides, warned Francis Kean of Willis Group Holdings. Speaking at a Willis-hosted cyber liability conference in London this week, the...
Mar 5 2012 // Three people who believe they were targeted by a private investigator working for Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World while they were in the United States are considering suing his company in U.S. courts, a source...
Mar 5 2012 // Cloud computing is big business. With a worldwide market forecast to reach nearly $241 billion by 2020, it’s no wonder chief information officers (CIOs) rank cloud computing in their top three technology priorities...
Mar 5 2012 // In today’s business world, digital information is fundamental to everyday operations. Whether it’s financial applications, email communications, supply chain management, content management, sales order...
Feb 28 2012 // Charlotte Church, who testified about being hounded by Rupert Murdoch’s journalists when she was a teen singing sensation, has received 600,000 pounds ($951,000) in a settlement from News International.Despite her...
Feb 23 2012 // Americans love movies, and they showed it by purchasing 1.2 billion tickets worth about $10.2 billion at the box office last year.That, of course, means big business for companies that are willing to insure the risks...
Feb 15 2012 // Leading U.S. senators introduced a cybersecurity bill on Tuesday aimed at safeguarding the nation’s water and power systems, which experts have warned often only have the most rudimentary protections against...
Feb 9 2012 // Agents and brokers have three new options for technology risks from Liberty International Underwriters (LIU).The specialty lines division of Liberty Mutual Insurance has started offering a trio of new primary cyber...
Feb 7 2012 // U.S. authorities are stepping up investigations, including an FBI criminal inquiry, into possible violations by employees of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire of a U.S. law banning corrupt payments to foreign officials...
Feb 6 2012 // It’s a familiar small-business success story: A company extends its storefront from Main Street to the Internet. It uses social media to spread the word. Payment card processing is now outsourced to the cloud. The...
Feb 6 2012 // The U.S. government is making it easier for small businesses to beef up defenses against cyber criminals through a free, online tool.The Small Biz Cyber Planner allows business owners to create customized cyber security...
Feb 2 2012 // At least a half-dozen major U.S. companies whose computers have been infiltrated by cyber criminals or international spies have not admitted to the incidents despite new guidance from securities regulators urging such...
Jan 31 2012 // U.S. communications, media, and technology (CMT) companies can expect their insurance market conditions to further deteriorate in 2012, continuing a trend that began in the second half of 2011, according to a report...
Jan 24 2012 // New data-protection proposals from the European Union to help people regain control of personal information from sites like Facebook could prove as effective as commanding the tide, while hurting small firms and Web giants...
Jan 23 2012 // The European Union will propose tough new rules in the coming days on how corporations handle Internet users’ personal data, a long-awaited move that could have far-reaching implications for Web giants such as Google...
Jan 19 2012 // The British newspaper arm of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. looks set to settle at great expense a string of legal claims after admitting wide-scale phone hacking that was both known about and concealed by senior...