Aon’s Reinsurance Solutions division has announced the hiring of Robert O’Connell as Global Cyber Strategy and Growth Leader, Executive Managing Director, a role that will see him tasked with leading on delivering value to cyber clients, including through the use of cyber insurance-linked securities (ILS).In this role, O’Connell will be tasked with leading Aon’s efforts … Read more
A security researcher has blamed misconfigured implementations of Microsoft Power Pages for a slew of data breaches from web portals – including the leak of 1.1 million NHS employee records. It’s the latest discovery by Dublin-based security researcher Aaron Costello, who previously discovered the health and personal details of over a million citizens had been … Read more
Everest Re, the reinsurance underwriting arm of global re/insurer Everest, has announced the promotion of Emily Davis, who has been appointed as the Head of Global Specialties, a role that will see her with responsibility for parametric reinsurance solutions.In her new role, Davis will report to Jill Beggs, Reinsurance Executive Vice President and Chief Operating … Read more
For the fourth year in a row, Brown, Goldstein & Levy partner Jessie Weber was recognized in the Lawdragon 500 Leading Civil Rights & Plaintiff Employment Lawyers Guide, named for her practice in Employee & Civil Rights Litigation, including Disability Rights. This recent honor adds to Jessie’s growing list of accolades. Jessie has been recognized … Read more
DrayTek patched 14 vulnerabilities affecting 24 of its router models, including a maximum severity buffer overflow flaw that could lead to remote code execution (RCE) or denial-of-service (DoS). The two critical-, nine high- and three medium-severity DrayTek bugs were discovered by Forescout Research’s Vedere Labs and described in a report titled “DRAY:BREAK” published Thursday. Shodan … Read more