International
WhatsApp Urges Users to Download Update After Spotting Software Vulnerability
WhatsApp pressed users to update its messaging service, following a report that a vulnerability in the software allowed attackers to hack into people's phones using commercial Israeli spyware. The ...
Accounting Firm Shows How Not to Handle a Cyber Hack
Dutch company Wolters Kluwer NV makes the software on which many of the world's small and mid-sized accounting firms run. Earlier this week, a cyberattack took down that software and presented a case ...
Lloyd’s Hopes Independent Survey Can Help Change Culture of Harassment
Lloyd's of London has commissioned an independent culture survey following a Bloomberg Businessweek article that uncovered evidence of sexual misconduct in the world's oldest insurance market. The ...
G7 Nations Plan Simulated Cross-Border Cyber Attack on Finance Sector in June
Leading Western industrial powers will for the first time jointly simulate a major cross-border cybersecurity attack on the financial sector next month, French officials said on Friday. The exercise, ...
Risk Alerts: Mississippi Homeowner Premiums, Hacked Scooters, Seat-Back Cameras on Airplanes
Mississippi homeowners could see premiums rise up to 25 percent thanks to Hurricane Katrina-related subrogation litigation being brought by the Mississippi attorney general. Lime electric scooters in ...
InsurTech Investments Break Further Records in Q1
InsurTech investors worldwide executed the highest number of transactions, the highest number of property/casualty transactions, and the highest volume of Series B and Series C funding rounds during ...
A New Brexit Referendum? Liberal Democrats See Possibility
Is Prime Minister Theresa May mulling a second referendum on Brexit? Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable certainly seems to think so. Out canvassing for the May 23 European elections in a leafy ...
A Weak El Nino Should Linger Through August, Possibly Easing Hurricane Threats
The weak El Nino pattern that's been influencing global weather will probably stick around through August, likely bringing rain to Brazil's coffee fields while drying India's monsoon and possibly ...