Technology/Science
Data Breaches Caused by Employee Error Still a Huge Problem: Beazley
Hacking and malware attacks including ransomware attacks continue to be the leading cause of breaches, accounting for 32 percent of the 1,330 incidents that insurer Beazley's in-house Breach Response ...
Securing the ‘Internet of Things’ Basis of Bipartisan Senate Bill
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators on Tuesday plans to introduce legislation seeking to address vulnerabilities in computing devices embedded in everyday objects - known in the tech industry as the ...
Commercial Drone Startup Atlas Dynamics Raises $8M; Market Focus Includes Insurance Industry
A commercial drone startup based in Latvia with an eye, in part, on the insurance industry has raised $8 million in funding. Atlas Dynamics declined to disclose its specific investors, other than ...
Nobody Is Safe: Cyber Security Firm FireEye Says Researcher Got Hacked
Cyber security firm FireEye said on Monday one of its researchers based in Israel had several of his online accounts hacked by unknown attackers, but added the breach did not appear to involve any ...
UBI Is a Failure, But Telematics Insurance Is Working Extraordinarily Well
Insurance telematics has been out there for more than 20 years. Many insurers have tried to play with the technology, but few have succeeded in using the data available from connected telematics ...
U.S. House Committee Signs off on Quicker Rollout of Self-Driving Cars
An influential U.S. House committee on Thursday approved a revised bipartisan bill on a 54-0 vote that would speed the deployment of self-driving cars without human controls and bar states from ...
Allianz Teams With InsurTech Startup to Debut On-Demand Drone Insurance in UK
Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS) has partnered with InsurTech startup Flock to launch on-demand drone insurance in the UK market through a mobile app for commercial and recreational ...
Super Regional Carriers Gain by Educating ‘Suspicious’ Regulators About Tech Advances
"We're curious and we don't know. When regulators don't know what's going on, they get suspicious." That was Wisconsin Insurance Commissioner Ted Nickel acknowledging that like the industry they ...