Technology/Science
An Employer’s Guide to Securing Data in the Mobile Device Age
Do you remember when Palm introduced its revolutionary products back in 1997? Life then was simpler when it came to protecting corporate information on mobile devices, such as the PalmPilots and ...
Gas-Gobbling Bacteria May Help with Oil Leaks, Greenhouse Gases
A type of bacteria that eats natural gases may provide a small defense against leaks such as BP's Gulf of Mexico oil spill in 2010 and curb global warming, a scientific report said on Monday. The ...
Former EQECAT President Keogh Now at Ultimate Risk Solutions, LLC
Bill Keogh, who left EQECAT last year to join TigerRisk Partners, has now left the reinsurance brokerage to become chief executive officer of Ultimate Risk Solutions, LLC. Ultimate Risk Solutions is ...
El Niño and Hurricanes By the Numbers: Assured Research Analysis
Forecasters are weighing in on the chances of an El Niño event developing later this year, with some assigning probabilities as high as 65 percent. But what exactly does that mean for U.S. property ...
Powerful Quake Strikes off Coast of Vancouver Island: AIR
The magnitude 6.6 earthquake that struck off the coast of Canada's Vancouver Island Wednesday is not expected to cause significant damage, but AIR Worldwide says a more powerful quake in the area ...
Tech and Medical Device Convergence Exposes New World of Risks
When the acclaimed television drama series "Homeland" climaxed with a devious plot by terrorists to kill America's vice president by hacking into his electronic pacemaker, critics mocked the ...
Growing Percentage of Spy Hacks Traced to Eastern Europe: Verizon Study
Hacking for espionage purposes is sharply increasing, with groups or national governments from Eastern Europe playing a growing role, according to one of the most comprehensive annual studies of ...
Next Generation Cat Modeling: Multimodel, Open Source or Open Platform—What’s the Difference?
For the past two decades, insurers and reinsurers have licensed catastrophe models from AIR, RMS and EQECAT, and each vendor model came with its own front and back end to handle the model input and ...