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Internet of Things – Security and privacy issues presented at ISACA Roma & OWASP Italy conference by Pierluigi Paganini

28/12/2014 10:34

Yesterday Pierluigi Paganini presented at the ISACA Roma & OWASP Italy conference the state of the art for the Internet of Things paradigm. Yesterday I presented at the ISACA Roma & OWASP Italy conference the state of the art for the Internet of Things paradigm. The presentation highlights...

New market for hack-attack insurance takes root by Scott Tong

27/12/2014 20:27

For the second day, the digital Grinch has stolen Christmas for gamers around the globe. Networks went dark for Microsoft's Xbox and Sony Playstation users, with a group of hackers calling themselves Lizard Squad taking responsibility. It’s unclear if Sony or Microsoft had hacker...

Big Year for Hackers, Capped By Sony, Delivers Strong Sales to Insurers by Leslie Scism

25/12/2014 10:37

After years of hype about how cyberinsurance was poised to become an important product for property-casualty companies, 2014 appears to be the year the coverage finally, firmly caught hold, according to leading brokerage firms. The year started with headlines about the 2013 holiday hacker...

Sizing Up Cyber Risks after the Sony Breach by Travis Wall

25/12/2014 10:35

Sony’s most recent data breach underscores the difficulties in underwriting and insuring cyber risk. Sony incurred losses that were surprising in both their scope and type. The company already is a defendant in at least four new lawsuits concerning the disclosure of employees’ confidential...

Entry Point of JPMorgan Data Breach Is Identified by Matthew Goldstein, Nicole Perlroth and Michael Corkery

23/12/2014 06:52

The computer breach at JPMorgan Chase this summer — the largest intrusion of an American bank to date — might have been thwarted if the bank had installed a simple security fix to an overlooked server in its vast network, said people who have been briefed on internal and outside investigations into...

Are Companies Too Focused on Cybercrime? by Judy Selby

23/12/2014 06:36

Companies are not paying enough attention on errant employees, and will pay the price in 2015. As we come to the end of a tumultuous year where "data breach" became a household term, Experian Data Breach Resolution has published its 2015 Second Annual Data Breach Industry Forecast, outlining...

Cyberattack on German steel factory causes 'massive damage by Loek Essers

21/12/2014 09:02

A German steel factory suffered massive damage after hackers managed to access production networks, allowing them to tamper with the controls of a blast furnace, the government said in its annual IT security report. The report, published Wednesday by the Federal Office for Information Security...

The Internet of Things to bring a new economic boom by Patrick Thibodeau

20/12/2014 07:54

The Internet of Things (IoT) may be more significant in reshaping the competitive landscape than the arrival of the Internet. Its productivity potential is so powerful it will deliver a new era of prosperity. That's the argument put forth by Michael Porter, an economist at the Harvard Business...

Should Your Company Get Cybersecurity Insurance? by Will Yakowicz

19/12/2014 18:18

The recent Sony breach was epic--more than 100 terabytes of data was compromised, including company employees' personal medical records, embarrassing email correspondence, and unreleased films. To top it all off, the breach leaked Sony's internal IT assessment--a report that...

10 Worst Data Breaches of All Time By Elizabeth Palermo

17/12/2014 06:45

You probably heard about the Target data breach that put the credit-card numbers and personal information of millions of the retail giant's customers into the hands of cybercriminals in late 2013. But Target's security nightmare wasn't the worst data breach in history. Here are the 10 worst data...

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