All the headlines from our Cyber Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 20 2022 // Decentralized finance, the once red-hot slice of the crypto universe that was at the center of this year’s collapse of the digital-asset world, is facing a rapidly increasing new challenge: financial hacking.After...
Oct 20 2022 // London-based cybersecurity company OutThink has raised $10 million in early-stage investments backed by venture capital firm AlbionVC, it said on Tuesday, as it looks to help organizations identify human behavior that can...
Oct 20 2022 // Australia’s biggest health insurer said on Thursday a criminal had apparently stolen customers’ medical information as part of a massive breach of data, fueling concern about a wave of high-profile cyber...
Oct 19 2022 // Cyberattacks on the digital supply chain have become increasingly common, as hackers seek out weak links among makers of computer code and equipment to breach organizations that depend on the technologies.In 2020, for...
Oct 19 2022 // Health insurance company EyeMed Vision Care LLC will pay a $4.5 million penalty to New York State for violations of the state’s cybersecurity regulation that officials said exposed hundreds of thousands of...
Oct 19 2022 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at three brokers: Lockton Re’s Cyber Practice, Howden’s Equine division and Guy Carpenter’s delegated authority unit.A summary of these new...
Oct 19 2022 // Australia’s Medibank Private Ltd. said on Wednesday an unnamed hacker group had contacted it negotiate about customer data it claimed to have retrieved from the health insurer’s IT systems.The news comes six...
Oct 19 2022 // QBE Appoints New Marine VPsQBE International Markets is increasing its presence in the US marine insurance space and has appointed Sean Dollahon, vice president, US marine manager, and Katie McCord, vice president, senior...
Oct 17 2022 // The New Mexico agency that oversees professional licenses for thousands of businesses across the state has been the target of a cyber attack.Officials said there was evidence of unauthorized access of the Regulation and...
Oct 17 2022 // Cyber remains the top concern in the technology risk category, with 28% of UK and U.S. respondents listing the issue as their number one risk in 2022, according to a recent survey by Beazley.But the insurer notes that this...
Oct 17 2022 // Cyber threats are the top concern for business decision-makers for the third time in four years, according to the 2022 Travelers Risk Index.Cyber threats were a top concern by 59% for respondents, followed by broad...
Oct 14 2022 // In its latest update of the cyber market, broker Marsh said there are signs of improvement, with average rate increases continuing a trend of stead decline.Marsh said rate increases for cyber insurance have decelerated...
Oct 13 2022 // Coalition, the San Francisco-based cyber insurer and cyber-security firm, announced the formation of Ferian Re, an independent Bermuda-based Class 3B reinsurer that will provide capacity across Coalition’s cyber...
Oct 13 2022 // A U.S. transportation security agency said Wednesday it plans to issue new cybersecurity requirements for some key aviation systems after several U.S. airport websites earlier this week were hit with apparently coordinated...
Oct 13 2022 // Australian health insurer Medibank Private said on Thursday it will isolate and remove access to some customer-facing systems as it detected unusual activity on its network.The company said it took “immediate steps...
Oct 12 2022 // A pro-Russian hacktivist group is claiming credit for a series of disruptions that temporarily knocked the websites of some US airports offline.The group, called Killnet, has engaged in a series of cyberattacks in recent...
Oct 11 2022 // The conviction of Uber Technologies Inc.’s former security chief on Oct. 5 has raised the specter that a high-profile criminal charge and newly expanded federal rules may force companies to be more transparent when...
Oct 11 2022 // Lloyd’s of London said on Monday that its investigation into a possible cyberattack had found no evidence of data compromise.“The investigation has concluded that no evidence of any compromise was found and as...
Oct 11 2022 // Details of an apparent cyberattack on one of the largest health systems in the U.S. were slow to emerge as security experts on Oct. 7 warned that it often takes time to assess the full impact on patients and...
Oct 10 2022 // Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. said on Monday its unit Dialog faced a cyber attack that potentially affected 1,000 current and former employees and fewer than 20 clients, weeks after a massive data breach at another...