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Underwriting Wildfire Risk
The 2021 California wildfire season continued the worrying trend of more extreme fires than the historical norm. As of December 12, 8,786 wildfires had destroyed over 2.5 million acres, about 1 ...
Amazon Web Services Outage Explainer: Will There Be More?
Robotic vacuum cleaners wouldn't start. Doorbell cameras stopped watching for package thieves, though some of those deliveries were canceled anyway. Netflix and Disney movies got interrupted and The ...
Cost of Cyber Disruptions on Critical Infrastructure At Least $8M Per Day: Research
The resilience of America's critical infrastructure networks has been tested over the last year by an increasing number of serious disasters—both natural and manmade—including winter storms ...
Google, GM, Amazon, Others Canceling In-Person CES Attendance
General Motors Co, Alphabet Inc.'s Google and its self-driving auto-technology company Waymo on Thursday joined the companies no longer attending the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in person early ...
Tesla to Lock Access to Video Games in Moving Cars
Under pressure from U.S. auto safety regulators, Tesla has agreed to stop allowing video games to be played on center touch screens while its vehicles are moving. The National Highway Traffic Safety ...
Toyota Starts Offering Auto Cover With Farmers-Owned Toggle in 5 States
Automaker Toyota's insurance arm has begun selling its first branded insurance coverage, Toyota Auto Insurance, in Arizona, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and South Carolina, and will soon be offering the ...
China Starts Letting Insurers Lend Securities, Possibly Boosting Short Selling
China on Friday authorized its insurers to take part in securities lending, potentially boosting short-selling activities in the country's stock and bond markets. Chinese banks, brokerages and mutual ...
Lessons from CNA, JBS and Colonial Pipeline Ransomware Payments
In March 2021, CNA Financial Corp., one of the country's largest insurance companies, suffered a ransomware attack from a cybercriminal group called Phoenix. The attackers pressured the insurer to ...