Europe’s citizens and businesses could benefit from better protection for their computer systems and data if the cyber insurance market can be kick-started, according to a recently released report from the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA). The report …
Virginia-based IT services provider CSC is forming an advisory board to help tackle cyber security issues in the insurance industry. It’s called the Insurance Cybersecurity Advisory Council. The company says the group will help facilitate the development of best practices …
As few as 12 different Chinese groups, largely backed or directed by the government there, do the bulk of the China-based cyberattacks stealing critical data from U.S. companies and government agencies, according to U.S. cybersecurity analysts and experts. The aggressive, …
U.S. securities regulators formally asked public companies for the first time to disclose cyber attacks against them, following a rash of high-profile Internet crimes. The Securities and Exchange Commission issued guidelines Thursday that laid out the kind of information companies …
The year ahead will feature new and sophisticated means to capture and exploit user data, as well as escalating battles over the control of online information that threaten to compromise content and erode public trust and privacy. Those are the …
The computer hackers, chat room denizens and young people who comprise the loosely affiliated Internet collective known as Anonymous have increasingly turned to questionable tactics, drawing the attention of the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and other federal investigators. …
Security experts have discovered the biggest series of cyber attacks to date, involving the infiltration of the networks of 72 organizations including the United Nations, governments and companies around the world. California-based security company McAfee, which uncovered the intrusions, said …
Even before a loosely organized group of hackers broke into the CIA’s and Senate’s public websites, the White House asked for stiffer sentences for breaking into government and private computer networks. Last month the Obama administration pressed Congress to pass …
Draft legislation is being circulated in Congress that would require firms to make reasonable efforts to secure customers’ personal data and to provide quick disclosures in the case of a data breach. U.S. Representative Mary Bono Mack, who has held …
Governments, multinational corporations and global institutions are losing the battle against computer hackers and must combine their resources if they are to lock out cyber intruders, experts say. The International Monetary Fund has joined Sony and Google on a growing …
