Apple-Backed Study Finds Rise in Data Breaches as iPhone Maker Defends Encryption December 12, 2023 By Stephen Nellis In the first nine months of 2023, U.S. data breaches increased by 20% compared to the full year 2022, according...
Federal Cyber Insurance Backstop Is Warranted With Focus on Catastrophic Risk November 28, 2023 By Chad Hemenway Much more work and collaboration needs to be done but the U.S. Treasury has reached a “tentative conclusion” that a...
Schools Look to Improve Cybersecurity, but Many Vulnerable to Ransomware November 21, 2023 By Alanna Durkin Some K-12 public schools are racing to improve protection against the threat of online attacks, but lax cybersecurity means thousands...
Viewpoint: ChatGPT, Laden With Hacker-Inserted Malware, Is Writing Code for Companies November 8, 2023 By Lou Steinberg If yours is like many companies, hackers have infiltrated a tool your software development teams are using to write code....
Ransomware, Extortion Claims See ‘Worrying Resurgence,’ Says Allianz November 8, 2023 Following two years of high but stable loss activity, 2023 has seen a “worrying resurgence” in ransomware and extortion claims...
Microsoft Vows to Revamp Security Products After Repeated Hacks November 7, 2023 By Andrew Martin Microsoft Corp., battered for its role in several major hacks, said it’s revamping the way it provides cybersecurity protection, using...
SEC Sues SolarWinds for Concealing Cyber Risks Before Massive Hack October 31, 2023 By Chris Prentice, Jonathan Stempel and Raphael Satter The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday sued software company SolarWinds Corp. and its top information security executive, saying...
Computer Systems for Almost All Kansas Courts Offline Due to Security Incident October 20, 2023 By John Hanna TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) – Computer systems for almost all of Kansas` courts have been offline for five days because of...
Internet Companies Report Biggest-Ever Denial of Service Operation October 12, 2023 By Raphael Satter Internet companies Google, Amazon and Cloudflare say they have weathered the internet’s largest-known denial of service attack and are sounding...
Survey: Cyber Budgets, Insurance Premium Jump Across Sectors October 10, 2023 Budgets and insurance policy costs have increased exponentially despite doubts surrounding efficacy of cyber practices, according to a recent survey...