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New York Regulators Call on Insurers to Strengthen the Cyber Underwriting Process

Hunton Privacy

As reported on the Hunton Insurance Recovery blog , on February 4, 2021, the New York Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS”), which regulates the business of insurance in New York, has issued guidelines, in the Insurance Circular Letter No.

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Ransomware Protection in 2021

eSecurity Planet

The internet is fraught with peril these days, but nothing strikes more fear into users and IT security pros than the threat of ransomware. A ransomware attack is about as bad as a cyber attack can get. Jump to: What is ransomware? How ransomware works. Preventing ransomware. Ransomware attacks and costs.

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List of Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks in 2023

IT Governance

A month later, a ransomware attack shut down the company’s operations in Italy and China. MCNA Insurance MCNA Insurance, also known as MCNA Dental, was caught up in a cyber hacking incident last week, in which 112 covered entities were affected. PharMerica The US pharmacy network PharMerica began notifying 5.8

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Inside Ireland’s Public Healthcare Ransomware Scare

Krebs on Security

The consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers recently published lessons learned from the disruptive and costly ransomware attack in May 2021 on Ireland’s public health system. The unusually candid post-mortem found that nearly two months elapsed between the initial intrusion and the launching of the ransomware.

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CyberheistNews Vol 13 #22 [Eye on Fraud] A Closer Look at the Massive 72% Spike in Financial Phishing Attacks

KnowBe4

Your email filters have an average 7-10% failure rate; you need a strong human firewall as your last line of defense. link] Cyber Insurance: Is Paying a Ransom Counter-Productive? The steady nature of ransomware attacks is a reminder that no company is immune. We can't (yet) stop ransomware. By Jacqueline Jayne.

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SEC Chair: Sweeping New Cybersecurity Rules Are Coming Soon

Data Matters

For example, SEC guidance from 2018 emphasizes that there is a range of factors that may affect whether an incident should be disclosed to investors beyond the bottom-line financial costs to respond to the incident. Public Companies and Service Providers. Public companies currently must disclose material cybersecurity incidents.

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CyberheistNews Vol 13 #18 [Eye on AI] Does ChatGPT Have Cybersecurity Tells?

KnowBe4

A cardplayer yawns when they're about to bluff, for example, or someone's pupils dilate when they've successfully drawn a winning card. Your email filters have an average 7-10% failure rate; you need a strong human firewall as your last line of defense. Date/Time: Wednesday, May 10, @ 2:00 PM (ET) Can't attend live?