Travelers Cos. said quarterly profit slipped 18 percent to its lowest since 2012 as costs tied to natural disasters rose while income from investments fell.

Summer brings traffic congestion, unsafe behaviors and redoubled efforts to curb accident frequency and severity.

Of all the rules to being successful in business, these two are perhaps the most important.

Hackers using software to block data and then demand money in return are relying on increasingly advanced techniques more commonly seen in cyber-espionage cases.