The advances in internet communication have allowed for thoughts and ideas to flow from one continent to the next, pushing education, medicine, and new discoveries further and faster than ever before. In an ideal world, this platform would be used … Continued
What would be the impact on insurers and the global economy if key ports in Asia-Pacific were closed as a result of a cyber attack? Our new scenario report explores the impact of a hypothetical computer virus which closes up … Continued
Today, the Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies launches its 2019 Cyber Risk Outlook in partnership with RMS. The 2019 Outlook is the product of a full year of research and conversation with experts, an insightful look at the current cyber … Continued
by Jennifer Daffron and Kelly Quantrill Many US government employees are currently struggling with the ongoing effects of the US Government shutdown. Due to precedents set by previous government shutdowns, impacts such long lines at airports and national park closures … Continued
by Jennifer Daffron and Kelly Quantrill The nearly 24-hour outage of the O2 4G network that affected O2’s 25 million customers has been traced to an expired certificate in a software used by their supplier Ericsson. What exactly does this … Continued
by Jennifer Daffron and Kelly Quantrill Across the UK, over 25 million customers of the O2 network, including people signed up to Tesco Mobile, Sky, Lycamobile and GiffGaff, are forced to rely on WiFi connectivity for access to the internet … Continued
Tuesday, 28 February, saw “high error rates” in multiple AWS services in the US’ eastern region. These began in the S3 service provided by the US-East-1 North Virginia site before spreading to other services hosted by US-East-1 including CloudWatch, EC2, … Continued