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Aon Benfield Launches New Private Charter Aviation Policy
Aon Benfield has rolled out a new kind of insurance coverage that it suggested could spur business expansion in private charter aviation. Ostensibly, the coverage is designed for SHY Aviation, an ...
Europol Pushes For Data Law Changes to Battle Cybercrime
Law enforcers in Europe need greater powers to retain data for longer in order to catch cybercriminals selling discrete services that police cannot trace under existing regulations, according to a ...
Hackers See Lucrative Possibilities With Medical Records
Your medical information is worth 10 times more than your credit card number on the black market. Last month, the FBI warned healthcare providers to guard against cyber attacks after one of the ...
Insurers Envision Slight IT Spending Hikes for 2015: Novarica
Most insurers only plan modest increases in their IT budgets in 2015. And while other industries are spending more and more in emerging tech areas such as mobile insurance, big data and the cloud, ...
Chubb Eyes Biorenewable and Industrial Biotech Opportunities
The Chubb Group of Insurance Companies is rolling out new insurance products and risk-management programs for both biorenewable and industrial biotechnology outfits. New Jersey-based Chub defines ...
Nearly 2,000 U.S. Flights Disrupted by Disgruntled Worker Setting a Fire
A fire that police said was started by a contractor at a Chicago area air-traffic center grounded about 1,800 flights across the U.S., disrupting major routes run by Southwest Airlines Co., American ...
Six Movie and TV Companies Win Drone Use Approval
U.S. aviation regulators loosened restrictions on the commercial use of drones on Thursday, granting six television and movie production companies permission to use the small, remotely piloted ...
New ‘Shellshock’ Computer Bug Already Drawing Hacker Attention
Hackers have begun exploiting the newly identified "Shellshock" computer bug, using fast-moving worm viruses to scan for vulnerable systems and then infect them, researchers warned on Thursday. ...