Welcome to Cyber Security Today. This is the Week in Review for the week ending Friday, August 26th, 2022. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com.
In a few minutes David Shipley, head of New Brunswick’s Beauceron Security, will be here to discuss recent news. But first a look back at some of the headlines from the past seven days:
Insurance companies are getting tougher on customers after having to pay out big money because of cyber attacks from foreign countries. Lloyds of London has told its partner insurance firms their policies have to clearly say that they won’t cover damages suffered in cyber attacks from state-backed threat actors. There was a report that some companies are giving up on trying to get cyber insurance because it’s so expensive. David and I will look at these developments.
We’ll also talk about a U.S. regulator that walked back proposed cybersecurity regulations on pipelines.
Also this week, IT leaders in organizations that use Gmail, Yahoo Mail and Microsoft Outlook were warned to ensure their employees use strong passwords and multifactor authentication to protect their accounts if they haven’t…
