News in brief: celebs’ phone hacking settled; German court raps Facebook; Ashley Madison victims hit again

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American Bar Association to offer cybersecurity insurance to law firms

After a year which saw multiple law firms end up in the headlines for data breaches, the American Bar Association expanded its insurance program Tuesday to offer cybersecurity coverage.  The new offering, ABA President Linda A. Klein said in a statement, comes at a time when “the number of cyber breaches increases everywhere and throughout […]

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Hacker steals 83,000 accounts from UPI news agency

A hacker is selling a database supposedly containing 83,000 compromised accounts from UPI.com, the website of the 110-year-old American news agency United Press International. After being contacted by CyberScoop, UPI alerted its entire email subscriber base Tuesday and removed login pages and entire sections of its website. For $100 (about 0.09 in bitcoin), a buyer gets emails, names […]

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