All the headlines from our Cyber Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 9 2011 // Citigroup Inc. said computer hackers breached the bank’s network and accessed the data of about 200,000 bank card holders in North America, the latest of a string of cyber attacks on high-profile companies.Citi said...
Jun 9 2011 // Companies using the Internet to do business should adhere to a code of conduct to reduce hacking and online theft, the U.S. Commerce Department said in a report issued Wednesday.The department recommended improved methods...
Jun 6 2011 // Wary of alarming customers, many firms never report the kind of cyber attacks suffered by Sony, Google and others — and as long as the stigma holds, tackling the growing problem may prove impossible. Data theft is a...
Jun 3 2011 // “Electronic aggression,” sometimes called “cyber-bullying,” is an excluded offense under newly revised personal umbrella policy forms being filed countrywide by The American Association of Insurance...
Jun 3 2011 // From the satellite pictures on Google Earth, Jinan looks like any other Chinese city — sprawling construction sites, massive factory blocks, apartment buildings, a university, dozens of railway lines and wide-open...
Jun 3 2011 // Hackers broke into Sony Corp.’s computer networks and accessed the information of more than 1 million customers to show the vulnerability of the electronic giant’s systems, the latest of several security...
May 20 2011 // Sony Corp has been hacked again.So-Net, the Internet service provider unit of Japan’s Sony, alerted customers that an intruder broke into its system and stole virtual points from account holders worth $1,225. This...
May 16 2011 // Sony’s Security“When I hear Sony talking about deploying [automated software monitoring and configuration management] software in reaction to the [data] breach, what I wonder is, ‘Why didn’t they...
May 16 2011 // Banning ‘Storm Vultures’Senate Bill 101 “will ensure that homeowners and others who have suffered damage to their property are not then battered by the unscrupulous acts of ‘storm vultures.'”...
May 13 2011 // The White House Thursday pressed Congress to pass strong cybersecurity measures to protect consumers’ personal information and safeguard the nation’s financial system and electric power grid from potentially...
May 13 2011 // The recent hacker attack at Sony Corp. and other corporate data breaches are attracting more class-action lawyers eager to score a payday, though huge monetary settlements may be elusive.At least 25 lawsuits have been...
May 12 2011 // White House officials Thursday planned to unveil a major legislative proposal aimed at improving U.S. cybersecurity and protecting the economy, an administration official said.The proposal is the result of two and one-half...
May 6 2011 // Sony is looking to its insurers to help pay for its massive data breach, an amount that one expert estimates could exceed $2 billion, but others said insurers may balk at ponying up that kind of money.“We have a...
May 6 2011 // Sony is looking to its insurers to help pay for its massive data breach, an amount that one expert estimates could exceed $2 billion, but others said insurers may balk at ponying up that kind of money.“We have a...
May 3 2011 // Despite the threat of increasing incidents of cyber attacks on businesses worldwide, the vast majority of companies (73 percent) report they do not have network liability policies, according to a new industry survey.The...
May 2 2011 // Nearly a third of Americans report that businesses are not doing enough to protect them from workplace discrimination and identity theft.A recent survey by the Chubb Group of Insurance Cos. found that one in three people...
May 2 2011 // The University of California (UC) has redefined the rules of cyber liability insurance, using an approach that the university’s Chief Risk Officer Grace Crickette calls “reverse underwriting.”...
Apr 28 2011 // “Sony Corp. said that the credit card data of PlayStation users around the world may have been stolen in a hack that forced it to shut down its PlayStation Network for the past week, disconnecting 77 million user...
Apr 15 2011 // public apology from Rupert Murdoch’s UK newspaper arm, designed to contain an escalating phone-hacking scandal, looked to have failed after a judge said civil cases against the firm could run into next year at...
Apr 14 2011 // U.S. authorities claimed one of their biggest victories against cyber crime as they shut down a ring they said used malicious software to take control of more than 2 million PCs around the world, and may have led to theft...