Compliant In May. Seventeen Thousand Open Ports In June.

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A defense supplier held every certificate on the list. Then it moved its servers. And issues arrived. On this episode of the Cyber Insurance News Podcast, Cyber Tzar CEO Andrew Horkan on why compliance is paperwork, what an outside-in scan sees, and why brokers are starting to use a cyber score before they bind. Oh, … Read more

Swiss Re: Extreme Cyber Accumulation Is Too Big For Private Capital

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Swiss Re Institute read the risk disclosures of 91 Fortune-100 companies. Ninety-eight percent of them name cyber attacks as a risk to their business. No risk in the study appeared more often. With the London School of Economics, it compared filings from 2019 and 2026. Cyber attacks topped the list in 2026, up from 91% … Read more

The Machines Are Learning. Unfortunately, From Us.

We built AI on our own data, then got alarmed when it acted like us. An opinion on AI, agentic risk and who pays when the agent wanders off.

This essay originally appeared on “With Respect — Mostly,” Executive Editor Martin Hinton’s Substack, where he writes about a wide range of subjects, including cyber insurance and security. It has been adapted for Cyber Insurance News with additional reporting that ties it more directly to coverage we’ve done. Oh man. This was going to be … Read more

Stolen Credentials Outlive The Malware That Stole Them

Cyber Insurance News story on infostealer credential exposure showing a password prompt echoing across time

In June, a stream went live on IGN’s official Twitch channel. Nobody at IGN had started it. A self-identified white hat hacker had taken over a senior video director’s Restream account. He launched the broadcast himself. The account’s credentials had been sitting in an infostealer dump for more than a month before anyone used them. … Read more

CRC Specialty Puts Cyber, Tech E&O And Professional Liability On One Form

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One AI failure can reach several policies at once. CRC Specialty has put three of them on the same form. CRC Group’s exclusive Insurisk platform launched Insurisk Cyber on 22 September. The product combines cyber liability, technology errors and omissions, and miscellaneous professional liability in a single policy form. A- or better AM Best-rated paper … Read more

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