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The Sale of Hacked Credit Card Info on the Web Is Surging
The number of hacked U.S. credit cards whose information was offered for sale to other criminals on the Dark Web jumped by about two-thirds in the first half of this year, according to a ...
Equifax Reaches Data Breach Settlement in Several States; Fines Avoided
Equifax Inc on Wednesday avoided fines in a deal with eight states' banking regulators over a data breach that compromised sensitive data of more than 145 million people, as the credit reporting ...
The Latest Launches From Corvus Insurance and XL Catlin
Corvus Insurance debuted a new "smart" policy designed to provide broad cyber coverage as well as predict and prevent cyber insurance risks through ongoing IT security scanning and scoring. XL Catlin ...
Insurers Limit Cyber Coverage for Energy Companies, Leaving Taxpayers, Customers at Risk
Insurers are limiting how much coverage energy companies can buy to protect themselves against a major attack by hackers, potentially leaving investors, customers and taxpayers on the hook for ...
U.S. Energy Industry’s Cyber Security Measures Are Woefully Lacking
How much is cyber security worth to the U.S. energy industry? Not a whole lot apparently. Two prominent security consultant firms estimate that energy companies, ranging from drillers to pipeline ...
Atlanta Struggles to Recover From Cyber Attack, Relying on Paper and Phones
Atlanta's top officials holed up in their offices on Saturday as they worked to restore critical systems knocked out by a nine-day-old cyber attack that plunged the Southeastern U.S. metropolis into ...
Turn Commercial Drones Into Targeted Weapons? AI Could Help Hackers Do That
Rapid advances in artificial intelligence are raising risks that malicious users will soon exploit the technology to mount automated hacking attacks, cause driverless car crashes or turn commercial ...
U.S. Treasury Security Mnuchin Seeks Answers From Consumer Bureau on Equifax Breach
U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Tuesday said he wants to know how the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is handling a probe into a hack of credit bureau Equifax Inc after a report that ...