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Inside Hackers: $40B Threat for U.S. Employers
Fired from a job as a technology contractor for a Toyota Motor Corp. factory in Kentucky, Ibrahimshah Shahulhameed went home, logged into the company's computer network and attacked it with ...
Security Pros See Insurance Pricing, Product Liability as Cybersecurity Tools
Alarmed by mounting cyber threats around the world and across industries, a growing number of security experts see aggressive government action as the best hope for averting disaster. Even though ...
Passenger Jet Systems May Be Vulnerable to Hackers
Cybersecurity researcher Ruben Santamarta says he has figured out how to hack the satellite communications equipment on passenger jets through their WiFi and inflight entertainment systems—a claim ...
New Class of Hacker Attacks May Target USB Devices
USB devices such as mice, keyboards and thumb-drives can be used to hack into personal computers in a potential new class of attacks that evade all known security protections, a top computer ...
Insurers Struggling With Cyber Risk Market; Staffing an Issue
Insurers are eagerly eyeing exponential growth in the tiny cyber coverage market, but their lack of experience and skills handling hackers and data breaches may keep their ambitions in check. ...
Senate Panel Approves Bill Protecting Firms Sharing Hacker-Threat Data
A Senate panel approved a bill that would give Bank of America Corp., Visa Inc. and other companies operating critical U.S. computer systems legal protections for sharing hacking threats with each ...
As Firms Ratchet Up IT Security, Data Breaches Remain Unstoppable
With hackers stealing tens of millions of customer details in recent months, firms across the globe are ratcheting up IT security and nervously wondering which of them is next. The reality, cyber ...
U.S. Infrastructure Vulnerable to Cyber Risks; Experts Say CEOs Too Complacent
After warning for years that the U.S. electric grid and other critical infrastructure are dangerously vulnerable to hacking, security experts fear it may take a major destructive attack to jolt CEOs ...