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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 ...
Company Data Breach Now Costs $3.5M on Average: Ponemon Study
The average cost of a corporate data breach increased 15 percent in the last year to $3.5 million, according to a study by the Ponemon Institute. The study also found that the cost incurred for each ...
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 ...
U.S. Retailers to Share Cyber Threat Data After Target Attack
U.S. retailers are planning to form an industry group for collecting and sharing intelligence about cyber security threats in a bid to prevent future attacks in the wake of last year's big attack on ...
Majority of Businesses Not Fully Prepared for Online Security Incident
Only 17 percent of businesses globally are fully prepared for an online security incident, according to a new survey on the issue of incident response preparedness sponsored by Arbor Networks Inc. ...
Mind Your Wallet: Why the Underworld Loves Bitcoin
Criminals may already have made off with up to $500 million worth of bitcoins since the virtual currency launched in 2009—and you can double that if it turns out they emptied Mt. Gox. Internet ...
MasterCard, Visa Form Group to Push for Better Card Security
Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc. have launched a cross-industry group to improve security for card transactions and press U.S. retailers and banks to meet a 2015 deadline to adopt technology that would ...