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Cyber Insurance and the Changing Global Risk Environment

Security Affairs

When security fails, cyber insurance can become crucial for ensuring continuity. The events of the past two years have made this shift clear: from ransomware attacks to the challenges of managing distributed workforces, digital risk is different. When security fails, cyber insurance can become crucial for ensuring continuity.

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MY TAKE: Can Hollywood’s highly effective ‘source-code’ security tools help make IoT safe?

The Last Watchdog

Related: HBO hack spurs cyber insurance market. Irdeto’s suite of products helps set-top box manufacturers protect high-value content; its technology also is used by live sports broadcasters to deter hackers from siphoning off pay-for-view sporting events. But now we have IoT devices connecting into these ecosystems.

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US Senators introduce IoT cybersecurity bill

Data Protection Report

Recent attacks demonstrate that connected devices, which make up the Internet of Things (“IoT”), can paralyze websites, networks , and even components of critical infrastructure. Recent events show that the IoT is an attractive vector for a cyberattack.

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Insurers’ digital focus is looking through the wrong ‘lens’

CGI

Insurers’ digital focus is looking through the wrong ‘lens’. Read any article on digital insurance and it seems to me that it is all about the insurers! In a more advanced state CGI’s experience in using HoloLens technology from Microsoft suggests to me that this is an area ripe for consumer focussed insurer innovation.

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11 cyber security predictions for 2020

IT Governance

Attacks involving the IoT will continue. Attackers will use the IoT (Internet of Things) to gain access to targets, pivoting attacks through compromised devices or using their resources as part of cyber attacks. The IoT will be used in both attacks on domestic premises and in industrial espionage.

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6,009,014 MovieBoxPro Accounts Breached in Another Data Scraping Incident

IT Governance

Source 1 ; source 2 (Update) Insurance USA Yes 75,101 Airsoftc3.com Source 1 ; source 2 (Update) Insurance USA Yes 75,101 Airsoftc3.com Source (New) Manufacturing USA Yes Unknown Human Events. Most notably, it’s banning bad default passwords on IoT (Internet of Things) devices, becoming the first country to do so.

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What is a Cyberattack? Types and Defenses

eSecurity Planet

There are many types of cyberattacks , with top trends for 2022 including mobile attacks, ransomware, COVID-related scams and hacks, zero-click attacks , malicious QR codes , phishing , cryptojacking , and IoT malware attacks, among others. Capital markets, insurance, financial services, and banking are now online. Ransomware.