Data security

Report of Internet traffic hijacking highlights danger.

Willis Re has established a long-term relationship to develop solutions for risk scenarios using services from SpatialKey, a provider of SaaS-based location intelligence technology. The reinsurance broker will use SpatialKey to help its insurance clients better assess the composition of their portfolios and identify their exposure to natural and man-made hazards, including hurricanes, terrorism, tornados, and wildfires, the solution provider says.

Banks seeking laundry list of carve-outs that would give financial institutions so many exceptions from the rule that it might as well not exist at all.

Moody's says the industry regained some of the ground it lost in early 2009.

As climate researchers turn verbal somersaults to explain their findings, insurers will remain perplexed over future weather patterns.

John Bowman argued that Dodd-Frank made his agency the scapegoat for the financial crisis, could spell doom for the thrift charter.

The outcome of the current administration's efforts to clamp down on Internet privacy may create a positive spin for President Obama—and migraines for insurers simply trying to conduct business.

S&P revises outlook on CIGNA Corp., Moody's affirms Liberty Mutual Group Inc. ratings and A.M. Best assigns ratings to Unitrin’s “Automatic Shelf” Registration.

Insurers executing a reinsurance program are faced with getting it right the first time.

S&P report ponders consequences of interest rate risk to insurance industry.

Risks can be mitigated by utilizing stronger data security programs, Ernst & Young report says.

Despite barbarians at their gates, Moody's reports that P&C insurers remain financially sound.

Insurers, among others, warned the Financial Stability Oversight Council that designating companies as systemically important could do more harm than good.

As studies confirm the promise and limits of traditional safe driving initiatives, technology may provide an answer.

The feds say it will be a “secure” system, but definitions of security vary.

Insurer Health Net is fined $375,000 following a large breach of personal health information in late 2009.

Report says weak pricing environment may become the “new normal.”

A new AAA study reveals 10% of motorists admit to having fallen asleep while driving in the past year.

The senator feels there is further work to be done on GSE Reform and legislation regarding "Too Big To Fail."

Sid Sankaran will play a part in AIG’s goal of re-establishing itself as a world-class insurance organization, according to CEO Robert Benmosche.