Vertafore, an insurance software maker, has announced that it accidentally leaked Texas driver license information of almost 28 million people, including names and addresses. It’s one thing to get hit by a ransomware attack or a severe data breach, but sometimes companies make mistakes and inadvertently leak data themselves. It’s a common problem caused by […]
Cisco is getting ready for a new journey in cyber insurance, and Apple will be part of it, the company announced this week. The company didn’t provide specific details on what its customers should be looking for, but David Ulevitch, Vice President for Cisco’s Security Business Group, mentioned in a blog post on Monday that […]
Rep. Ed Perlmutter (D-Colo.) introduced legislation this month to subsidize data breach insurance for businesses while encouraging practices that would keep them from ever having to use it. The Data Breach Insurance Act would offer a tax deduction of 15 percent of the cost of breach insurance. Perlmutter said he has received positive feedback for the […]
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