News and information from the Advent IM team.

LinkedIn Harvesting: Is your social media compromising UK security?

  • by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
  • General

The Times recently released a story that was picked up and spread widely through other news outlets and social media. The story exposed a Chinese national using Linkedin to hunt for UK state secrets in return for cash, holidays and false speaker engagements. The intelligence officer sought out British security officials, civil servants, scientists and […]

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New Video Series! Red Teaming | Video Case Study (Episode #1)

Welcome to the first episode of our new series Advent IM: Case Studies! Today we’re joined by an anonymous member to discuss their participation in a red teaming exercise, that Advent IM conducted for a client! Red Teaming is a ‘penetration test’ for an organisation’s building. It’s a real-life exercise that tests your organisations physical […]

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NEW PODCAST | Culture and Behaviour in the Workplace

  • by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
  • General

With thanks to Si Pavitt,  Head of Cyber Behaviours and Culture, Assured Cyber Protection for his contribution to the Advent IM Risk and Business Podcast. Si Pavitt was previously head of the MOD Cyber Awareness, Behaviours and Culture (CyAB&C) team under the 2* Directorate of Cyber Defence and Risk (CyDR). He was primarily responsible for […]

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Weekend Wisdom Returns!

This is your weekly recap of everything that has happened in the world of security as well as what we have been up to here at Advent. So, without further ado, Our #5MinSecurityRead series is back starting with: I am not a target, by Head of Marcomms and Media, Ellie Hurst. Read here  War in […]

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FBI Hacker Offers to Sell Data Allegedly Stolen in Robinhood Breach

The hacker who last week sent out thousands of fake emails from FBI systems is offering to sell data allegedly stolen in the recent breach at mobile stock trading platform Robinhood. Robinhood last week revealed that it had suffered a data breach in early November after someone used social engineering to trick an employee into […]

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Robinhood trading app hit by data breach affecting seven million

US share-trading app Robinhood has been hit by a security breach that has exposed the names or email addresses of more than seven million people. The company says the breach affected “a limited amount of personal information for a portion of our customers”. And it does not believe the most sensitive information it gathers – […]

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