Results of a study on corporate confidence in responding to a data breach are in and of the 604 executives who responded, just 34 percent feel their company’s data breach response plans are effective. Though data breaches ranked second only …
Reinsurance executives polled at the recent 2015 PCI annual meeting by Guy Carpenter & Company agreed that cyber continues to be the most threatening emerging risk. As the number of data breaches mount, more focus is being placed on the …
U.S. prosecutors on Tuesday unveiled criminal charges against three men accused of running a sprawling computer hacking and fraud scheme that included a huge attack against JPMorgan Chase & Co and generated hundreds of millions of dollars of illegal profit. …
More than 675,000 records were exposed by data breaches in the U.S. in 2014, according to the California-based Identity Theft Resource Center, a non-profit organization aimed at helping consumers. Since breaches began being tracked in 2005, they have risen by …
According to the 2015 International Business Resiliency Survey, conducted by Marsh, a global insurance and risk management broker, and Disaster Recovery Institute International (DRII), firms consider cyber and IT-related risks to be the most likely to occur and have the …
Cyber, technology and casualty catastrophe and reserving are three key risks affecting property/casualty insurers that continue to emerge, according to Guy Carpenter & Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan Companies. In a new report published this month, …
What kid wouldn’t want to be able to create an electronic science fair poster, with photos and embedded video, using their smartphone – all on the morning bus ride on the day it’s due? Glogster EDU lets kids do that …
A U.S. appeals court said the Federal Trade Commission has authority to regulate corporate cybersecurity, and may pursue a lawsuit accusing hotel operator Wyndham Worldwide Corp of failing to properly safeguard consumers’ information. The 3-0 decision by the 3rd U.S. …
The Ashley Madison hack is a big reminder to all Web users: If you submit private data online, chances are it will never fully be deleted. The hackers, who stole the data about a month ago and then posted it …
A three-hour shutdown of the New York Stock Exchange on the same day that a network failure halted all United Airlines flights in the U.S. had people across the country thinking one thing: cyberattack. It wasn’t, but the July 8 …