All the headlines from our Cyber Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 27 2010 // Nearly half (44 percent) of private company executives expect their firms will add jobs by year end, and more than half (54 percent) plan to expand product or service offerings. Another 12 percent of those same executives...
Oct 1 2010 // To help New Jersey physicians protect against the rising number of business risks beyond the practice of medicine, MDAdvantage has introduced Supreme Advantage insurance for employment practices liability, privacy and data...
Sep 23 2010 // Proposed cybersecurity legislation circulating on Capitol Hill would give the president the power to declare an emergency in the case of big online attacks and force some businesses to beef up their cyber defenses and...
Aug 27 2010 // Five days. That’s how quickly agents and insurers must now notify Connecticut insurance regulators about a possible leak of clients’ personal information. The new bulletin, released earlier this month, follows...
Aug 6 2010 // NAS Insurance Services has enhanced its managed care product with an e-MD cyber liability coverage enhancement. Because of increased regulations on patient privacy, HIPAA and customer notification, managed care...
Jul 8 2010 // Leading climate scientists on Thursday welcomed a British report that cleared researchers of exaggerating the effects of global warming and said they hoped it would restore faith in the fight against climate change [See IJ...
Jul 8 2010 // A California-based health insurance company has agreed to pay Connecticut $250,000 for losing a disk drive containing private information of 1.5 million customers, including nearly 450,000 state residents.Attorney General...
Jul 5 2010 // People use the phrase “it’s nothing personal, just business” all the time. It covers a wide range of topics and situations. If you change that statement by one word so it reads, “it’s nothing...
Jul 5 2010 // People use the phrase “it’s nothing personal, just business” all the time. It covers a wide range of topics and situations. If you change that statement by one word so it reads, “it’s nothing...
May 26 2010 // OneBeacon Technology Group announced enhancements to its @vantage for Information Technology product designed for hardware, software and telecommunications companies.Two primary coverage areas have been broadened to...
May 18 2010 // The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. has partnered with Identity Theft 911, an identity theft management and data-breach response service.The arrangement will enable The Hanover’s agents to provide their mid-size...
Apr 27 2010 // ACE USA, the U.S.-based retail operating division of the ACE Group, has made new enhancements to its privacy protection and network liability protection policies, including a suite of independent data breach specialists...
Apr 8 2010 // Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire has signed legislation into law that encourages financial institutions to comply wtih that data security requirements — or face potential liability if a data breach occurs.According...
Mar 12 2010 // Midlands Management Corp., an operating subsidiary of PMA Capital Corp., has started a new program with data breach coverage. It is designed for clients in industries that are data intensive and required to comply with...
Mar 9 2010 // The Internet was built on freedom of expression. Society wants someone held accountable when that freedom is abused. And major Internet companies like Google and Facebook are finding themselves caught between those...
Mar 8 2010 // An audit by the Oregon Secretary of State’s office says there has been little progress in fixing serious gaps in the state’s data security systems.Auditors wrote in the report that the weaknesses could...
Mar 4 2010 // With more than 40 states now enforcing privacy and security breach notification laws, underwriters are working hard to scoop up the business this niche creates, while also tweaking their policy forms to provide the...
Feb 25 2010 // “A new wave of hacker attacks is breaching corporate and outsourced information systems with one information security firm recently detailing coordinated hacker attacks on 2,400 companies and government agencies...
Jan 27 2010 // U.S. businesses and government agencies are facing increasing risks of potential cyber attacks from China, according to a recent report. And IT departments that react defensively to such attacks may not be doing enough to...
Jan 8 2010 // The ACE European Group has appointed Iain Ainslie to the role of Technology and Cyber Liability Underwriter. ACE said the appointment underscores its “commitment to enhancing its service offering and presence in this...