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Suspected Russian Spyware Turla Targets Europe, United States
A sophisticated piece of spyware has been quietly infecting hundreds of government computers across Europe and the United States in one of the most complex cyber espionage programs uncovered to date. ...
Oceanwide Launches Online Cloud Provider Risk Assessment Tool for Insurers
Oceanwide, Inc.announced the launch of its Cloud Provider Assessment Model (CPAM) Thursday, noting that the tool was designed for the insurance industry to give information technology (IT) and ...
Cyber Attacks Increasing, Costing Millions, Straining Internet
Crashing websites and overwhelming data centers, a new generation of cyber attacks is costing millions and straining the structure of the Internet. While some attackers are diehard activists, ...
Insurers Took Some of Cyber Breach Impact, Target Says
Target Corp. shares made strong gains after it reassured investors that customers were beginning to return to its U.S. stores, suggesting that the impact of a massive data breach may not be as severe ...
CEO Viewpoint: Winning the War for Talent to Harness the Full Power of Predictive Analytics
The reputation of the insurance industry has long been that it follows behind other industries in the use and implementation of technology. Across numerous other industries, big data and analytics ...
Guy Carpenter’s Satellite Imaging Service Assisting Insurers with UK Floods
Reinsurance specialist Guy Carpenter & Co. recently launched a satellite-based catastrophe evaluation service, GC CAT-VIEWSM, which it is already using to provide clients affected by the recent ...
OECD Wants Broker, Insurer Data Included in Tax Evasion Crackdown
Accounts at brokers and insurers need to be included along with banks in a plan designed to share data among governments to crack down on tax evasion, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and ...
RMS(one) To Be Available in April; ARA Putting Hurricane Model on Platform
On Tuesday, RMS announced that it will release version 1.0 of RMS(one), the company's exposure and risk-management platform, on Apr. 15, 2014. All RMS catastrophe models, as well as select models ...