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RSAC Fireside Chat: Operationalizing diverse security to assure customers, partners–and insurers

The Last Watchdog

Related: Getting the most from cyber insurance At RSAC 2025, I met with ESET Chief Security Evangelist Tony Anscombe to trace a quiet but growing convergence: endpoint defense, cyber insurance, and monoculture risk are no longer separate concerns. Cyber insurers want it. And increasingly, that evidence is under scrutiny.

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Automakers Are Sharing Driver Data with Insurers without Consent

Schneier on Security

Kasmir Hill has the story : Modern cars are internet-enabled, allowing access to services like navigation, roadside assistance and car apps that drivers can connect to their vehicles to locate them or unlock them remotely. In recent years, automakers, including G.M.,

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U.S. Secret Service: “Massive Fraud” Against State Unemployment Insurance Programs

Krebs on Security

A well-organized Nigerian crime ring is exploiting the COVID-19 crisis by committing large-scale fraud against multiple state unemployment insurance programs, with potential losses in the hundreds of millions of dollars, according to a new alert issued by the U.S. Secret Service.

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Cybersecurity Insurance

Schneier on Security

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.

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Breachforums Boss to Pay $700k in Healthcare Breach

Krebs on Security

In what experts are calling a novel legal outcome, the 22-year-old former administrator of the cybercrime community Breachforums will forfeit nearly $700,000 to settle a civil lawsuit from a health insurance company whose customer data was posted for sale on the forum in 2023. Conor Brian Fitzpatrick , a.k.a.

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Cyber Insurance: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

IT Security Guru

Enter cyber insurance. We insure almost everything – our homes, our cars, even our lives. At first glance, it seems odd that most businesses don’t insure against something as potentially devastating as cybercrime. Unfortunately, transferring traditional insurance models to the cyber-sphere isn’t an easy task.

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Riding the State Unemployment Fraud ‘Wave’

Krebs on Security

Secret Service warned of “massive fraud” against state unemployment insurance programs , noting that false filings from a well-organized Nigerian crime ring could end up costing the states and federal government hundreds of millions of dollars in losses. Meanwhile, a number of U.S. Last week, the U.S. ” STATE WEB SITE WOES.

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