Technology/Science
Data Suggests 60% of Enterprise Firewalls Fail Compliance Checks
New data derived from FireMon customer onboarding revealed that 60 percent of enterprise firewalls fail high-severity compliance checks immediately upon evaluation, with another 34 percent falling ...
Jury Decides Tesla Partly Responsible in Autopilot Crash Case; Must Pay $243M
A Miami jury decided that Elon Musk's car company Tesla was partly responsible for a deadly crash in Florida involving its Autopilot driver assist technology and must pay the victims more than $240 ...
Smarty Turns FEMA Hazard Scores Into Address-Level Risk Intelligence
Smarty, an address intelligence provider, announced the launch of its U.S. Property Risk Data product. The new API-based solution transforms FEMA's National Risk Index (NRI) into structured, ...
Women’s Dating App Tea Reports 72,000 Images Stolen in Security Breach
Tea, an app that lets women anonymously comment and review dates with men, said it has suffered a data breach, with hackers gaining access to 72,000 user images. A Tea spokesperson confirmed the hack ...
Munich Re, CyberCube Report Warns of Growing Systemic Cyber Risk
Risks associated with systemic cyber events are no longer hypothetical scenarios but growing realities for organizations, insurers and cybersecurity professionals alike, according to findings from a ...
NY’s Hurricane Insured Loss Potential Up More Than 60% as Climate Changes
Insurance industry scientists put the spotlight on Northern U.S. cities in a new research paper about hurricane potential under a warmer climate scenario, finding that New York's insured losses could ...
U.S. Faces More Extreme Weather Events, but Is Our Society Living in the Past?
After deadly flooding in central Texas in 1987, some thought they'd proven they could handle Mother Nature's best punch. Then came this month's horrific flash floods, when unfathomable amounts of ...
U.S. Braces for ‘Low-Level’ Cyber Attacks by Iran After Airstrikes
U.S. officials are warning businesses to brace for potential Iranian cyber attacks following American airstrikes on the country's nuclear sites, an event that experts say could draw a relatively ...