Corporate Risk

Estimated cost to fix Heartbleed is thousands of dollars per server or application

Toyota Motor Corp., the worlds largest carmaker, called back more than 6 million vehicles to fix a range of safety defects in one of the biggest recall announcements in automotive history.

Energy companies face cyber challenges outside of their control, like mature tech systems, survey reports.

"Heartbleed" threat circumvents security measures at Yahoo, other sites, putting sensitive information including passwords, credit card information and other data at risk for nearly a billion Internet users worldwide.

Energy companies have no insurance against major cyber attacks, reinsurance broker Willis said on Tuesday, likening the threat to a "time bomb" that could cost the industry billions of dollars.

The task force President Barack Obama set up to manage General Motors Co.s bailout and bankruptcy in 2009 wasnt aware of the faulty ignition switches linked to 13 deaths in small cars, said people familiar with the matter.

General Motors Co. has retained crisis-communications expert Jeff Eller as it builds a team to help respond to the recall small cars with faulty ignition switches tied to 13 deaths.

On the one hand, allowing the use of personal devices for work can be cost effective, efficient and streamline employees access to information. On the other, it may create several potential unwanted exposures.