Long Article on GM Spying on Its Cars’ Drivers
Schneier on Security
APRIL 26, 2024
Kashmir Hill has a really good article on how GM tricked its drivers into letting it spy on them—and then sold that data to insurance companies.
Insurance and Ransomware
Schneier on Security
JULY 1, 2021
Here’s one more contribution to that issue: a research paper that the insurance industry is hurting more than it’s helping. Although it is a societal problem, cyber insurers have received considerable criticism for facilitating ransom payments to cybercriminals. News article. Often, that’s paying the ransom.
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GUEST ESSAY: Skeptical about buying life insurance online? Here’s how to do it — securely
The Last Watchdog
AUGUST 24, 2020
Purchasing life insurance once meant going to an insurer’s office or booking an appointment with an insurance agent. Today’s generation is used to getting everything done fast and easy, so life insurance providers had to get with the times and cover all customers’ needs and requirements.
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Thousands of Humana customers have their medical data leaked online by threat actors
Security Affairs
JULY 21, 2021
Experts found a DB containing sensitive health insurance data belonging to customers of US insurance giant Humana. An SQL database containing what appears to be highly sensitive health insurance data of more than 6,000 patients has been leaked on a popular hacker forum. Drug prescription listings). What’s the impact?
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SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER – ROUND 10
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 8, 2024
Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape.
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Have board directors any liability for a cyberattack against their company?
Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
This article aims to provide recommendations to directors of listed and unlisted companies on actions to take in advance, during, and after a cyberattack. On a similar topic, you can read the article “ ENISA 2022 ransomware report gives insights on recent changes “. The size of the cyber risk to companies cannot be underestimated.
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Cyber-insurance – 72 hours for the insured party to file a criminal complaint: GDPR’s false friend
Data Protection Report
MARCH 21, 2023
2] In this context, the Directorate General of the French Treasury has put forward a plan of action with a view to clarifying the cyber-insurance legal framework, better gauging cyber-risks, and enhancing companies’ awareness as regards cyber-risks. 12-10-1 into the French Insurance code. However, in the end, Article L.12-10-1
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Cyber Insurance: Is Paying a Ransom Counter-Productive?
KnowBe4
MAY 22, 2023
Food for thought as discussed on May 18, 2023, an article posted in The Australian Insurance Council: Banning paying a ransom to cyber hackers is counter-productive where Andrew Hall, the Chief Executive of the Insurance Council of Australia (ICA), stated that “attempts to ban businesses from paying ransoms for cyber attacks risks eroding trust and (..)
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Security Affairs newsletter Round 453 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION
Security Affairs
JANUARY 7, 2024
Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. Experts spotted a new macOS Backdoor named SpectralBlur linked to North Korea Merck settles with insurers regarding a $1.4 A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived!
Cyber and data privacy insurance trends in an era of increased regulation via Reuters
IG Guru
JUNE 27, 2024
Check out the article here The post Cyber and data privacy insurance trends in an era of increased regulation via Reuters first appeared on IG GURU.
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Ransomware attack on Johnson Controls may have exposed sensitive DHS data
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 1, 2023
Immediately after detecting the intrusion, the company launched an investigation with the help of leading third-party cybersecurity experts and is also coordinating with its insurers. ” reads the article published by CNN. “We The investigation is still ongoing and aims at determining the scope of the incident.
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Cyber Security: Insurance Prices Level After Two Years of Brutal Increases via ENR
IG Guru
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
Check out the article here. The post Cyber Security: Insurance Prices Level After Two Years of Brutal Increases via ENR first appeared on IG GURU.
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Security Affairs
OCTOBER 4, 2020
Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived!
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Security Affairs
APRIL 25, 2021
Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! A member of the FIN7 group was sentenced to 10 years in prison Is BazarLoader malware linked to Trickbot operators?
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[Arm and a Leg] Cyber Insurers Are Worried About The Long-tail Cost of Attacks
KnowBe4
APRIL 18, 2023
[BUDGET AMMO] James Rundle at the The Wall Street Journal today published a very interesting article about the long-term costs of cyber attacks and the fact that cyber insurers are getting more and more worried that their models do not cover these long-tail repercussions.
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Security Affairs newsletter Round 375 by Pierluigi Paganini
Security Affairs
JULY 24, 2022
Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs for free in your email box. A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter arrived! If you want to also receive for free the newsletter with the international press subscribe here. released in Dark Web – malicious shortcut-based attacks are on the rise Tor Browser 11.5
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Experts: Breach at IT Outsourcing Giant Wipro
Krebs on Security
APRIL 15, 2019
According to this article in The Business Standard , enemy shares are so called because they were originally held by people who migrated to Pakistan or China and are not Indian citizens any longer. “The buyers were state-owned Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC), New India Assurance and General Insurance Corporation. .
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How generative AI delivers value to insurance companies and their customers
IBM Big Data Hub
DECEMBER 1, 2023
Insurers struggle to manage profitability while trying to grow their businesses and retain clients. Large, well-established insurance companies have a reputation of being very conservative in their decision making, and they have been slow to adopt new technologies.
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Unemployment Insurance Fraud and Identity Theft: Up Close and Personal
Lenny Zeltser
JULY 1, 2020
According to the New York Times article from May 2020 , the US Secret Service “had information suggesting that the scheme was coming from a well-organized Nigerian fraud ring.” I wrote this article to help other victims of this unemployment insurance fraud and identity theft scam.
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Security Affairs newsletter Round 408 by Pierluigi Paganini
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 26, 2023
Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! If you want to also receive for free the newsletter with the international press subscribe here.
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Cybersecurity Insurance
Schneier on Security
APRIL 12, 2018
Good article about how difficult it is to insure an organization against Internet attacks, and how expensive the insurance is. In my new book -- out in September -- I write: There are challenges to creating these new insurance products. There are two basic models for insurance. BoingBoing article.
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Security Affairs newsletter Round 463 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION
Security Affairs
MARCH 17, 2024
Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.
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Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 25, 2024
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Security Affairs newsletter Round 488 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 8, 2024
Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free in your email box. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.
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New SEC Rules Add Challenges in Uncertain Cyber Insurance Market
KnowBe4
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
He wrote an article for Bloomberg where he analyzed cyber risk management issues that companies should prioritize in response to new SEC reporting requirements for cybersecurity incidents and threats. [BUDGET AMMO] Jeremy King is a partner at Olshan Frome Wolosky.
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Security Affairs newsletter Round 362 by Pierluigi Paganini
Security Affairs
APRIL 24, 2022
Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter arrived! If you want to also receive for free the newsletter with the international press subscribe here. Patch them now! Patch them now!
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More articles about information management than any sane person should write
AIIM
MARCH 12, 2018
Over 100 eBooks, Guest articles, and Tip Sheets from the past year or so -- 107 of them to be exact. Getting Ahead of the Disruption Curve is Critical for Insurance Companies. A winning recipe: SaaS + Cloud Content Management + IaaS. Modern problems require modern solutions: Meeting the challenge of Big Content. Tip Sheets.
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CJEU Rules on Processing of Sensitive Data and Compensation Under the GDPR
Hunton Privacy
JANUARY 5, 2024
Background The case related to the processing of an incapacitated employee’s personal data, including health data, by the medical service provider (“MDK”) of a health insurance fund in Germany. Under applicable law, the MDK draws up reports on the capacity of individuals insured by the health insurance fund to work.
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TA505 group updates tactics and expands the list of targets
Security Affairs
AUGUST 28, 2019
and which used emails with subjects pertaining to finance or urgent concerns on insurance policies. The emails used in these campaigns used subjects pertaining to finance or urgent concerns on insurance policies.” ” continues the report. XLS or VBA.DOC macros.” ” Trend Micro concludes.
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Are Fake COVID Testing Sites Harvesting Data?
Schneier on Security
JANUARY 19, 2022
Doctors Clinical Lab, the lab Center for COVID Control uses to process tests, makes money by billing patients’ insurance companies or seeking reimbursement from the federal government for testing. Read the article for the messy details. The companies will keep making money for the rapid tests they collect, he said.
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1M compromised cards available for free in the underground market
Security Affairs
AUGUST 8, 2021
Picture 12 – Screenshot from “xss” forum (AW_cards: “We recruit suppliers of bank cards”) Another unusual promotional move was the sponsorship of a contest for users who were asked to submit articles about penetration tests, the bypassing of security solutions, vulnerabilities and other hacking related topics.
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Many Public Salesforce Sites are Leaking Private Data
Krebs on Security
APRIL 27, 2023
health administrators are still smarting from a data breach earlier this year at the health insurance exchange DC Health Link , which exposed personal information for more than 56,000 users, including many members of Congress. But after being presented with a document including the Social Security number of a health professional in D.C.
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France: Changes to insurability of cyber losses
DLA Piper Privacy Matters
MARCH 27, 2023
LOPMI introduces amendments to the insurability of losses and damages paid in response to cyber-attacks, including in relation to ransom payments – requiring that the payment of insurance compensation be conditional on the filing of a complaint, within a 72 hour time frame, to competent authorities.
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French pharmaceuticals distribution platform Apodis Pharma leaking 1.7+ TB of confidential data
Security Affairs
DECEMBER 1, 2020
Apodis Pharma is a company that offers a digital supply chain management platform and other software solutions created for pharmacies, healthcare institutions, pharmaceutical laboratories, and health insurance companies. The database discovered by CyberNews contains over 1.7 Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Apodis Pharma).
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Nice Suzuki, sport: shame dealer left your data up for grabs
Security Affairs
JULY 21, 2023
Suzuki or otherwise, buying a new vehicle is an intense experience with complicated credit, insurance, documentation, and contracts. Suzuki’s media team hasn’t commented on our findings before publishing this article. Cybernews researchers reached out to both companies, and the vulnerabilities were quickly resolved.
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Subject Access Request: Germany’s highest court widens the scope of data subject access requests in Germany
Data Protection Report
JULY 28, 2021
The FCJ held that Article 15 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has a broader scope than previously understood in Germany. The defendant was a life insurance company and the claimant their insured. The claimant appealed this decision to the FCJ.
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Over-Retention of Personal Data
Data Protection Report
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
The matter involved one of France’s largest insurers, SGAM AG2R LA MONDIALE, which was subject to an inspection by the French data protection authority (the CNIL), in 2019. The CNIL’s inspection included the insurer’s compliance with Section 5-1(e) of GDPR , which reads: Personal data shall be. (e) Perhaps the CNIL’s €1.75
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Insurance Occurrence Assurance?
Andrew Hay
JULY 26, 2018
Though the breaches are concerning, the real story is that the financial institution suing its insurance provider for refusing to fully cover the losses. This, unfortunately, is the nature of insurance. Cyber security insurance cannot and should not, however, be viewed as your primary means of defending against an attack.
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[BUDGET AMMO] Companies Are Ditching Cybersecurity Insurance as Premiums Rise, Coverage Shrinks
KnowBe4
AUGUST 24, 2022
Reporter Aaron Holmes just published an article that is an eye opener for sure. Here is s short extract and I recommend you reading the whole article, link is below. One of these is called '" The Information " which covers in-depth tech stories usually earlier than anywhere else.
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Hunton Privacy and Insurance Leaders Address Prevention and Insurability of Cyber Attacks
Hunton Privacy
NOVEMBER 27, 2017
On November 3, 2017, Securityroundtable.org published an article highlighting the vulnerabilities businesses face in a world of e-commerce and interconnectivity, and spotlighted a crisis-planning panel hosted by Hunton & Williams held on November 1. For a recap of the event, read the full Securityroundtable.org article.
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GUEST ESSAY: A guide to implementing best security practices — before the inevitable breach
The Last Watchdog
OCTOBER 29, 2018
the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)), the answer is generally that a company should implement a “reasonable data privacy and security program” under all circumstances. Insurability. Editor’s note: This article also appears on michaelbest.com.
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The business value of operating core insurance solutions on the cloud
IBM Big Data Hub
JUNE 23, 2023
Although interest rates have increased at an unprecedented rate over the past year due to efforts by central banks to curb inflation, insurers are locked into low-yielding investments, and it will take several years for their investment yields to improve. Core modernization (processes and technology) is a top priority for every insurer.
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Security Affairs newsletter Round 322
Security Affairs
JULY 10, 2021
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Inrupt’s Solid Announcement
Schneier on Security
NOVEMBER 13, 2020
If you want your insurance company to have access to your fitness data, you grant it through your pod. A few news articles. You authorize granular access to that pod to whoever you want for whatever reason you want. Your data is no longer in a bazillion places on the Internet, controlled by you-have-no-idea-who. It’s yours.
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