Risk Management

Why Social Security Numbers Make Us Vulnerable

Businesses and financial services companies use them as “authenticators,” as well as identifiers. That’s a problem, according to this analysis […]

Buying The Right Cyber Insurance Policy

The need has never been greater, but insurers are now excluding cyber risks from standard policies, both general liability and […]

Ban On Foie Gras Upheld In 9th Circuit

In California, a law banning the sale of foie gras, which is made from the enlarged livers of geese or […]

Kaspersky Says “You Can Trust Us”

Eugene Kaspersky said through an interview with the BBC that there is no reason to mistrust his company, Kaspersky Lab, […]

Equifax Cyber Insurance Won’t Cover The Hit

The expense of the breach could be “ multiples higher than the insurance payout” after the monumental hack…

Is Fed Consumer Agency Too Popular To Kill?

Regulation hunters, particularly those associated with the financial industry, would like to take it down, but the Consumer Financial Protection […]

How Equifax “Got Everything Wrong”

It started with the CEO’s tone-deaf apology, calling the episode “a disappointing event for our company.” Meanwhile, by looking at regulatory filings, Bloomberg investigators found…

Pipeline Protest Groups Sued, Potential $1 Billion Damages

Claiming damages that could approach $1 billion, Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners (ETP) has sued Greenpeace and other protest groups in […]

Extreme Hurricanes Could Spawn Climate Litigation

The U.S. EPA says there is no causal relationship between climate change and the destructive power of Hurricane Harvey, but […]

Judge Oks Litigation Over Massive Yahoo Cyber Breach

A lawyer for the plaintiffs calls it “the biggest data breach in the history of the world” but Verizon, which […]

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