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# March 30, 2016: Small Dam Equals Big Cyber Risk and Florida to Restart Insurance Commissioner Search
- URL: https://www.riskmarketnews.com/march-30-2016-small-dam-equals-big-cyber-risk-florida-restart-insurance-commissioner-search/
- Published: 2016-03-30T09:33:08.000Z
- Updated: 2016-03-30T09:33:08.000Z
- Author: Chris Westfall

## Risk Science: What You Need to Read Today

### [New York’s Little Dam Sends Super-Sized Warning of Cyber-Attacks](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-30/new-york-s-little-dam-sends-super-sized-warning-of-cyber-attacks?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Bloomberg Technology](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-30/new-york-s-little-dam-sends-super-sized-warning-of-cyber-attacks?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

The hacking of a 75-year-old dam brought fresh attention to warnings that critical U.S. infrastructure is vulnerable to online assault.

### [New Study: People from French-Speaking Countries Are More Likely to Become Jihadists](http://www.vox.com/2016/3/29/11326120/jihadism-francophone?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Vox](http://www.vox.com/2016/3/29/11326120/jihadism-francophone?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

The countries most likely to produce people who leave to fight in Syria or Iraq tended to be French-speaking, or heavily influenced by French language and culture.

### [Mapping a Genetic Strategy to Fight the Zika Virus](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/31/us/mapping-a-genetic-strategy-to-fight-the-zika-virus.html?%5Fr=0&ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [New York Times](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/31/us/mapping-a-genetic-strategy-to-fight-the-zika-virus.html?%5Fr=0&ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Some of the nation’s leading mosquito researchers are striving to assemble a state-of-the-art DNA map that they say will help them fight the disease with the mosquito’s own genetic code.

### [Longer-term Weather and Environmental Forecasts Will Provide Enormous Benefit](http://phys.org/news/2016-03-longer-term-weather-environmental-enormous-benefit.html?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Phys.org](http://phys.org/news/2016-03-longer-term-weather-environmental-enormous-benefit.html?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Weather and environmental forecasts made several weeks to months in advance can someday be as widely used and essential as current predictions of tomorrow’s weather are.

## Risk Business: What You Need to Read Today

### [AIG Cuts CEO Incentive Award 29% After Missing Profit Goals](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-29/aig-slashes-ceo-incentive-award-29-after-missing-profit-targets?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Bloomberg](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-29/aig-slashes-ceo-incentive-award-29-after-missing-profit-targets?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Hancock has been reshaping management since taking over in September 2014.

### [Scott, Atwater Can’t Agree on Insurance Commissioner](http://www.bizjournals.com/tampabay/blog/morning-edition/2016/03/scott-atwater-cant-agree-on-insurance-commissioner.html?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Tampa Bay Business Journal](http://www.bizjournals.com/tampabay/blog/morning-edition/2016/03/scott-atwater-cant-agree-on-insurance-commissioner.html?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

The state has resumed its search for a new insurance commissioner after Gov. Rick Scott and Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater could not reach agreement Tuesday.

### [Global Insured Losses from Disasters Reach USD 37 Billion in 2015](http://www.swissre.com/media/news%5Freleases/Global%5Finsured%5Flosses%5Ffrom%5Fdisasters%5Freach%5FUSD%5F37%5Fbillion%5Fin%5F2015.html?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Swiss Re](http://www.swissre.com/media/news%5Freleases/Global%5Finsured%5Flosses%5Ffrom%5Fdisasters%5Freach%5FUSD%5F37%5Fbillion%5Fin%5F2015.html?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

There were 353 disaster events last year. Of those, 198 were natural catastrophes, which is the highest number in one year.

### [Florida Offshore Spending Would Hike Homeowner Costs 3.2 Percent](http://protectingyourpocket.blog.palmbeachpost.com/2016/03/29/storm-fund-reinsurance-move-would-hike-consumer-costs-3-2-percent/?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Palm Beach Post](http://protectingyourpocket.blog.palmbeachpost.com/2016/03/29/storm-fund-reinsurance-move-would-hike-consumer-costs-3-2-percent/?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

A move to buy reinsurance, if carried out in April, would raise rates 3.2 percent, offsetting about a third of an expected overall 9 percent decrease in CAT Fund rates.