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A Cyber Insurance Backstop

Schneier on Security

In the first week of January, the pharmaceutical giant Merck quietly settled its years-long lawsuit over whether or not its property and casualty insurers would cover a $700 million claim filed after the devastating NotPetya cyberattack in 2017. The 9/11 attacks cost insurers and reinsurers $47 billion. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 5 – 11 February 2024

IT Governance

Compromised data includes policyholders’ and their families’ civil status, dates of birth and social security numbers, as well as the name of their health insurer and information relating to their contracts. In November 2023, Northwell Health – the largest health system in New York – confirmed that it was affected by the incident.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: The Internet As A Pen Test

ForAllSecure

Chris Gray of Deep Watch talks about the view from the inside of a virtual SOC, the ability to see threats against a large number of SMB organizations, and the changes to cyber insurance we’re seeing as a result. VAMOSI: Cybersecurity insurance. cyber insurance as a whole was changing heavily. And why is that?

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 4 – 10 March 2024

IT Governance

Cybernews’s research team discovered the MongoDB server in December 2023 and contacted Glosbe. Only 3 definitely haven’t had data breached. Source (New) Finance USA Yes 3,494 Woodruff Sawyer Source (New) Insurance USA Yes 3,087 Blackburn College Source (New) Education USA Yes 3,039 CAIRE Inc.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 15 – 21 January 2024

IT Governance

million customers’ data stolen VF Corporation – the parent company of many popular clothing brands, including Vans and The North Face – has confirmed in its Form 8-K/A filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (an amendment to its original Form 8-K filing ) that its December 2023 cyber attack resulted in the theft of 35.5

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CyberheistNews Vol 13 #23 [Wake-Up Call] It's Time to Focus More on Preventing Spear Phishing

KnowBe4

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #23 | June 6th, 2023 [Wake-Up Call] It's Time to Focus More on Preventing Spear Phishing Fighting spear phishing attacks is the single best thing you can do to prevent breaches. Your email filters have an average 7-10% failure rate; you need a strong human firewall as your last line of defense.