Just a few items from the week. It’s a wide bucket for Sundays, cyber insurance, cybersecurity, and more. Some we reported on, and others we found interesting.
CYBER INSURANCE SUNDAY
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- This is a fascinating deep dive from Wired, How To Create a Monster; read it or listen here on the New York Times Audio App. The subject? “The Mirai Confessions: Three Young Hackers Who Built a Web-Killing Monster Finally Tell Their Story” Popular platforms such as Netflix, Spotify, Twitter, PayPal, and Slack experienced widespread outages affecting millions of users. Explore the intriguing tale of a group of teenage friends who delved into cybercrime, disrupting the internet, only to find themselves working alongside the FBI later. It’s a great read or listen, in my case. It makes one wonder how history will remember these early cybercriminals. A topic we’ve touched on here TAMING THE WILD WEST OF CYBER RISK – News & Information on the Role of Cyber Insurance.
- At-Bay and Measured Analytics and Insurance both attained AWS Cyber Insurance Competency.
- Feds Relaunch Cybersecurity Insurance and Data Analysis Working Group (CIDAWG). Read it here.
- The vulnerability of healthcare systems was in the news—notably the ransomware attack on Ardent Health. Read it here.