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Exploiting ‘Heartbleed’ Bug Aided Massive Hospital System Cyber Attack
Hackers who stole the personal data of about 4.5 million patients of hospital group Community Health Systems Inc broke into the company's computer system by exploiting the "Heartbleed" internet bug, ...
QBE CEO Neal: We’ll Keep U.S. Middle Market Biz
QBE has changed its mind about a possible sale of its U.S.-based middle market business, months after confirming that it was under strategic review. Why the change? It seems there's been a bit of a ...
Canada Feds: Rail Disaster Followed Inadequate Company Audit
The Canadian government did not adequately audit the railroad company at the center of the Lac-Mégantic crude tanker disaster, which last year killed 47 people, an independent federal agency said on ...
Resurgent Iceland Volcano Adds Risk to North Atlantic Flights
Airlines are on alert as one of Iceland's biggest volcanoes rumbles to life, threatening ash clouds that could force flight cancellations across the North Atlantic, the busiest international travel ...
QBE Responds to Profit Plunge With Plans to Sell Assets
QBE Insurance Group Ltd. plans to raise about $750 million in a share placement and sell assets including part of its lenders' mortgage insurance business in Australia after reporting an 18 percent ...RiskMatch: More Carrier Benefits Summarized
While Kabir Syed, the creator of RiskMatch, stresses that he's built a system that is broker-focused, carriers are key beneficiaries of the information that RiskMatch extracts from brokers to drive ...
Taking a Test Drive: A Carrier CEO Tour of RiskMatch
A carrier CEO who logs onto RiskMatch—the new platform created by Kabir Syed to enhance the relationships of carriers and brokers—is greeted by a screen with a big number in the upper right-hand ...
Who Is Kabir Syed and Why Did He Launch RiskMatch?
During his nearly two decades in the industry, Kabir Syed, founder and CEO of RiskMatch, has held leadership positions in marketing, strategic planning, operations and analytics—most notably at ...