Willis Reshapes Cyber Leadership in FINEX North America With Three Senior Appointments

Willis, a WTW business (NASDAQ: WTW), has named three senior leaders to its FINEX North America cyber practice. The new Willis FINEX North America cyber leadership team was appointed to further strengthen cybersecurity efforts for clients. The announcements took effect on May 27. Together, they signal a deliberate push to sharpen the broker’s cyber strategy … Read more

Asia Cyber Insurance Market Set to Surge, UIB and CyberCube Report Finds

Asia is the next big opportunity in cyber insurance. That is the central finding of new joint research from United Insurance Brokers (UIB) and CyberCube, published this week. The report, “Unlocking Asia’s Cyber Insurance Opportunity: The Broker’s Role in Growth,” identifies the region as one of the most compelling growth frontiers in the global market. … Read more

The Human Factor: Why People Are Cyber’s Biggest Risk And Its Biggest Fix

Cyber Insurance News Podcast thumbnail featuring host Martin Hinton and guest Yaniv Kapluto, CRO of nuKudo, discussing human error in cybersecurity breaches and the cyber talent gap and the impact on cyber insurance.

The cybersecurity industry spends billions on technology. Firewalls. Endpoint detection. Zero trust architecture. But Yaniv Kapluto says the real problem walks through the front door every morning, as organizations continue to struggle with human error and the cybersecurity workforce gap. Kapluto is Chief Revenue Officer at nuKudo, a global cybersecurity workforce company that identifies, trains, … Read more

Messi Beats Ronaldo. Your Password Still Loses

Specops research finds Messi beats Ronaldo in breached password data with 1,221,563 occurrences versus 923,582, as World Cup 2026 football passwords dissolve into cybersecurity breach warnings.

Specops Finds Over 1.2 Million Breached Passwords Named After The World’s Most Famous Footballer The 2026 FIFA World Cup kicks off in weeks, and somewhere between the group stage predictions and the replica shirt sales, a cybersecurity company has settled one of football’s great debates using data nobody expected. Lionel Messi beats Cristiano Ronaldo, not … Read more

Vulnerability Exploitation Overtakes Stolen Credentials As The #1 Breach Vector

Verizon’s 2026 DBIR Covers 22,000 Confirmed Breaches Across 145 Countries For years, the answer to “how did they get in?” was the same: a stolen password. That answer changed in 2025. Verizon’s 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report, the 19th annual edition and the largest dataset the report has ever produced, finds vulnerability exploitation has overtaken … Read more