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New EU Cyber Security Laws Affect Cisco, Google, Amazon and Others
Internet firms such as Cisco , Google and Amazon will be subject to a new EU cyber security law forcing them to adopt tough security measures and possibly report serious breaches to national ...
ACE Launches Info Website in UK & Ireland For Employer Liability Clients
Ace Group developed a new website designed to give its employer liability clients in the U.K. and Ireland access to a wide range of data and services. The property/casualty insurance giant frames the ...
XL Catlin Already Realizing Benefits of M&A Deal With Income/Premium Gains
XL Group, corporate parent of the newly merged XL Catlin, saw some real benefits from consolidation in the 2015 second quarter - its first as a combined company. Net income for Q2 reached $915 ...
Report: Goldman Sachs Tentatively Agrees to $270M Settlement For Investor Lawsuit
Goldman Sachs Group Inc has tentatively agreed to pay about $270 million to settle a lawsuit by investors, according to a source familiar with the matter. Pension funds led by NECA-IBEW Health & ...
Car Hacking Risks May Go Well Beyond Fiat Chrysler: U.S. Regulator
The cyber security issues that led Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV to recall 1.4 million vehicles this month could pose a problem for cars and trucks from other automakers, the top U.S. auto safety ...
Is Climate Change Now Its Own Industry?
Interest in climate change is becoming an increasingly powerful economic driver, so much so that some see it as an industry in itself whose growth is driven in large part by policymaking. The $1.5 ...
Public-Private Catastrophe Plan Could Boost UK’s Cyber Risk Resilience: Study
A public-private, cyber-catastrophe reinsurance arrangement would improve the UK's resilience against the growing threat of cyber risks in this interconnected world, according to a recently-released ...
Cyber Attacks Escalate in Asia, But Secrecy Prevails
Once a month, cyber security lawyer Paul Haswell gets a call from an Asian company with the same question: We've been hacked. Who do we need to tell? More often than not, his answer is "no one." The ...