Latest Cyber Headlines
All the headlines from our Cyber Topic Page, ordered by recency.
What Cyber Exposures and Coverage Gaps Keep Risk Managers Up at Night
Apr 16 2018 // Risk managers are very concerned about the cyber risks facing their companies and are heavily investing in protection against cyber attacks with the blessings of their boards and CEOs, a major shift from even just 10 years...
Effects of Cyber Breaches on Corporate Bottom Line: Viewpoint
Apr 13 2018 // Cyberattacks are an increasingly common threat to business, with risk officers listing cybersecurity as their greatest concern and more than 2,200 confirmed data breaches in 2017, according to a new report from Verizon....
West Virginia Sues Equifax Over Data Breach
Apr 13 2018 // West Virginia sued Equifax Inc on Thursday for failing to safeguard consumer information of hundreds of thousands of state residents and for delaying alerting the public to a breach that exposed the personal data of about...
Chubb Launches Online Cyber Risk Index
Apr 12 2018 // Chubb has put two decades worth of its own commercial cyber claims data into an online index that shows the cyber threats for organizations based on their size and industry. Access to the new proprietary online Chubb Cyber...
Barbican Launches Cyber Resilience Product Called ‘One-Step-Ahead’
Apr 11 2018 // Barbican Insurance Group announced the launch of a product partnership with two cyber risk management specialists to help insureds assess and improve their cyber resilience. Called Barbican Cyber...
Cyber Risk Score Could Help Insurers Refine Cyber Coverage
Apr 11 2018 // The rapidly emerging and evolving world of cyber risk poses a paradox for property/casualty insurers, according to two panelists addressing “Risk Selection in Cyber Insurance” at the Casualty Actuarial...
Reputational Damage from Fake News & Cyber Attacks Raise UK Business Risk: Report
Apr 10 2018 // Fake news threatens U.K. businesses with reputational damage as well as falling sales and share prices, adding to the growing risk from cyber attacks facing companies from local Indian restaurants to...
CFC Enhances Cyber Coverage for U.S. Healthcare Providers
Apr 9 2018 // Specialist insurance provider CFC has released a new version of its cyber insurance product for U.S. healthcare providers. The latest policy enhances CFC’s combined cover for privacy and operational disruption with...
What Cyber Exposures and Coverage Gaps Keep Risk Managers Up at Night
Apr 6 2018 // Risk managers are very concerned about the cyber risks facing their companies and are heavily investing in protection against cyber attacks with the blessings of their boards and CEOs, a major shift from even just 10 years...
CyberPolicy Expands Cybersecurity Offerings for Small Businesses
Apr 6 2018 // CyberPolicy, a wholly-owned subsidiary of CoverHound Inc. that offers an online cyber insurance and security product for small businesses, has unveiled a new set of complimentary offerings to help small businesses protect...
Delta, Sears Report Data Breach by Service Provider
Apr 5 2018 // Department store chain Sears Holding Corp. and Delta Air Lines Inc. said on Wednesday some of their customer payment information may have been exposed in a cyber security breach at software service provider [...
Massachusetts Can Sue Equifax Over Data Breach, Judge Rules
Apr 5 2018 // Massachusetts can move forward with a lawsuit accusing credit reporting firm Equifax Inc. of failing to safeguard its databases or provide prompt notice of a breach that exposed the personal data of 147 million people, a...
New Endeavor Cyber Product Designed to Protect Manufacturers From Physical Damage
Apr 5 2018 // Delegated authority specialist and Lloyd’s Broker Endeavour Insurance Services has launched a new cyber security coverage program, Ensconce, designed to protect manufacturers from the risk of physical damage caused...
Phishing Could Affect 6,800 Members of Maryland Insurer
Apr 3 2018 // Maryland’s largest health insurer says a phishing attack may have exposed the personal information of nearly 7,000 members. News outlets report CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield said Friday that an employee’s...
Everest Unveils Cyber Insurance Policy for Companies in All Industries
Apr 2 2018 // Everest Re Group, Ltd. has launched Everest Insurance Cyber Elevation Insurance Policy, which provides comprehensive cyber coverage and risk mitigation and remediation services to companies across all industry...
City of Atlanta Struggles to Recover from Cyber Attack
Apr 2 2018 // Atlanta’s top officials holed up in their offices on Saturday as they worked to restore critical systems knocked out by a nine-day-old cyber attack that plunged the Southeastern U.S. metropolis into technological...
Today’s Hot Markets: Buyers Hungry For EPLI, Cyber and More
Apr 2 2018 // Insurance Journal examined industries experiencing changes, challenges, expansions and growth in the past year. Here are five industry sectors and insurance markets that could offer opportunities for agents and brokers in...
Ransomware Cyberattack Still Affecting City of Atlanta’s Computer Network
Mar 28 2018 // Atlanta’s mayor says the city continues to operate despite ongoing troubles caused by a cyberattack on its computer network last week. City officials announced Thursday that the city’s computer network had been...
How 2 Researchers Hope to Protect Power Grid with Cyber Insurance Modeling
Mar 28 2018 // The failure of even parts of the nation’s power grid could cause rolling blackouts that paralyze health care, traffic and business systems. With the advent of “smart” infrastructures that send data to the...
Federal Energy Regulator Warns on Cyber Attacks on Power Grid
Mar 28 2018 // Hackers increasingly threaten sites in the U.S. ranging from nuclear power plants to water processing systems, according to a member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, adding his voice to warnings from several...
