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Hewlett-Packard Using $100M in Insurance to Settle ‘Botched Takeover’ Lawsuit
Hewlett-Packard Co. agreed to pay $100 million out of insurance proceeds to settle a lawsuit filed by shareholders who claimed they lost money in the botched takeover of Autonomy Corp., according to ...
Lawmakers Urge U.S. Retaliation For Massive Hacking of Worker Data
The Obama administration should retaliate for a cyber-attack on federal employee records that was the worst breach the U.S. government has ever suffered, members of Congress said on Sunday. "There ...
Iceland to Hedge Funds: Don’t Sue Over Planned Tax on Failed Bank Assets
The prime minister of Iceland said any hedge fund planning to challenge the legal basis of a planned tax on failed bank assets should think again. "If they wanted to make some kind of an example out ...
RIMS: Enterprise Risk Management Does Indeed Help Spot Cyber Risks
A whopping 77 percent of risk management professionals credit enterprise risk management with helping them spot cyber risks at their companies. That is one of the major findings from the Risk and ...
Where BIG Ideas Happen at Progressive: The Garage
The idea of capturing information about driving behavior on a mobile app is just one of 27 potential innovations that IT "mechanics" have worked on inside Progressive's Business Innovation Garage, a ...
Collaborating on Risk Mitigation: American Modern and IBHS
The Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS), in conjunction with the American Modern Insurance Group, a specialty insurer for manufactured homes and other specialty dwellings and ...
Building Customer Loyalty: It’s About Emotions, Not Just Fast-Food Delivery Times
"People may forget what you said. People may forget what you did. But they will never forget how you made them feel." Harley Manning cited the words credited to renowned poet Maya Angelou in a ...
Medical, Personnel Data More Valuable Than Credit Data to Cyber Spies
Whoever was behind the latest theft of personal data from U.S. government computers, they appear to be following a new trend set by cybercriminals: targeting increasingly valuable medical records and ...