As you may have heard by now, LinkedIn notified its users last week that it had been hacked. Out of about 150 million users, approximate 6 million had their passwords stolen and posted on a hacker web site. The breach of the social networking giant should come as no...
Cyber crime has become widespread in the business world, and although larger companies have more loot for the bad guys to steal, small businesses are regularly targeted too. In fact, smaller firms are more vulnerable to cyber attacks in some ways. Small business...
Ambulance companies are exposed to multiple areas of potential loss on a daily basis. Some, like medical malpractice, are widely understood and insured against. But for other risks, like network breaches and privacy violations, some firms unnecessarily put...
In just the last few years, social media has fundamentally affected the way many of us communicate. And statistics aren’t needed to prove it. If you’re under 40, chances are good that you have a Facebook, Twitter, and/or Linkedin account. If you’re 40 or older, you...
Cyber. It’s a word often signifying anything having to do with information zipping across the Internet. In the world of insurance and risk management, it has to do with a broad range of scenarios in which stored information might be damaged or lost. In fact, from an...
New cyber liability products and players continue to flood this already oversaturated market, but the real question is: is anyone buying them? Well, it depends on whom you ask. A recent survey of 164 risk and finance managers from Towers Watson found that 73 percent...