All the headlines from our Cyber Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 4 2011 // Barely a day goes by without news of another data breach at a major corporation or institution. From Sony to Citicorp, and the International Monetary Fund to the U.S. Senate, systems have proved vulnerable to hackers with...
Jul 1 2011 // Cyber criminals are outwitting national and international legal systems that fail to embrace technological advances, a top U.S. official said on Friday, demanding a cross-border campaign to combat the security...
Jun 28 2011 // Sony Corp. believes it was targeted by hackers because it tried to protect its intellectual property, CEO Howard Stringer told a shareholders’ meeting at which he sidestepped a call for him to step down over the...
Jun 27 2011 // The Lulz Security group of rogue hackers announced it was disbanding Saturday with one last data dump, which included internal AOL Inc. and AT&T documents.LulzSec, which gained wide recognition for breaching the...
Jun 24 2011 // After a massive data breach last month, Citigroup did not offer its hacked clients the same degree of identity-theft protection that many other companies provide, drawing criticism from privacy advocates.Citigroup, which...
Jun 22 2011 // If your company gets hacked, it may very well be your fault, and if your bank account gets broken into by digital thieves, you might be to blame too.The question, though, is whether you’ll ever actually be punished...
Jun 20 2011 // Hackers temporarily knocked offline a Website run by the British police Serious Organized Crime Agency (SOCA), which targets organized crime in Britain and overseas.Lulz Security, a loosely aligned hacker group which said...
Jun 20 2011 // Markel has updated its DataBreach cyber liability policy amidst recent reports of increased hacking activity.The new form will offer broader coverage and higher limits while maintaining the current structure, which is...
Jun 20 2011 // Demand for cyberinsurance was rising even before the most recent highly-publicized parade of breaches at major corporations and organizations. After the news of the first major Sony hack but before the subsequent reports...
Jun 20 2011 // Anyone with a suggestion or complaint about Alabama’s recovery from the deadly tornadoes in April should know that the buck stops with the governor.Gov. Robert Bentley said he’s not looking to the Federal...
Jun 20 2011 // Even before a loosely organized group of hackers broke into the CIA’s and Senate’s public websites, the White House asked for stiffer sentences for breaking into government and private computer networks.Last...
Jun 20 2011 // Barely a day goes by without news of yet another data breach at a major corporation or institution. From Sony to Citicorp and the International Monetary Fund to the U.S. Senate, systems have proved vulnerable to hackers...
Jun 20 2011 // Toyota Claims Setback“Application of California law to a nationwide class, at least in some instances, would drastically expand the scope of relief available to plaintiffs (to the detriment of Toyota).” —U.S....
Jun 17 2011 // While the big news is about hacks into the CIA’s and Senate’s public websites, Citigroup and Lockheed Martin, tens of thousands of people are victimized by cyber criminals each year, sometimes with devastating...
Jun 15 2011 // Travelers has unveiled CyberRisk, a new product from Travelers Bond & Financial Products meant to limit client cyber exposures and managing associated risks.“Cyber risks leave businesses exposed regardless of...
Jun 15 2011 // The recent string of sensational hacker attacks is driving companies to seek “cyberinsurance” worth hundreds of millions of dollars, even though many policies can still leave them exposed to claims.Companies...
Jun 14 2011 // Draft legislation is being circulated in Congress that would require firms to make reasonable efforts to secure customers’ personal data and to provide quick disclosures in the case of a data breach.U.S....
Jun 13 2011 // Governments, multinational corporations and global institutions are losing the battle against computer hackers and must combine their resources if they are to lock out cyber intruders, experts say.The International...
Jun 10 2011 // NAS Insurance Services has launched its Data Security Risk Management Web site. The site offers up-to-date state and federal laws, compliance materials, training tools, and procedures to reduce insured’s exposure to...
Jun 10 2011 // Cyber crime has become a high profile problem for risk managers, heightened as a result of the recent attacks by hackers on Sony. In an article on its web site Lloyd’s notes that risk manager are increasingly...