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AIG Execs: Cyber Insurance Demand Will Soar in China, Asia Following WannaCry Attack
Demand for cyber insurance from firms in Greater China and elsewhere in Asia is poised to soar, based on enquiries received after the "WannaCry ransomware" attack earlier this year, executives at ...
U.S. Army Abandons Use of Chinese-Made Drones Due to Cyber Vulnerability Worries
The U.S. Army has ordered its members to stop using drones made by Chinese manufacturer SZ DJI Technology Co Ltd because of "cyber vulnerabilities" in the products. An Aug. 2 Army memo posted by sUAS ...
WannaCry, Petya Cyber Attacks Cost Europe’s Companies Hundreds of Millions of Dolllars
Global hackers have unleashed a brace of attacks in recent months, but while their haul in bitcoin has been paltry, the revenue hit to companies infected is reaching into the hundreds of millions of ...
Cyber ‘Worm’ Disrupts Q2 Corporate Earnings for Many Firms
Costly cyber attacks are having a bigger impact on corporate earnings and are becoming a fact of life for companies as Oreo cookie maker Mondelez, drug maker Merck and others said that a destructive ...
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 ...
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 ...
Hackers Steal Data From 400,000 Client Accounts at Italy’s UniCredit Bank
UniCredit SpA, Italy's No. 1 bank, said hackers took biographical and loan data from 400,000 client accounts in one of the biggest breaches of European banking security this year. The attack occurred ...