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The British Library has published a report on what it has learned from the cyber incident that paralysed its IT systems in October of last year. Read Here.
Read MoreCapita’s share price closed 22 per cent lower on Wednesday after the outsourcing giant reported a huge loss and announced that it would be ramping up its cost-cutting programme. The group, which runs key local government, military and NHS services, this morning posted a pretax loss of £106.6m for 2023, compared with a £51.4m profit […]
Read MoreHouser LLP, a U.S. law firm that specializes in serving high-profile financial institutions, said a system breach discovered in May 2023 exposed the personal data — possibly including sensitive information such as credit card numbers — of more than 325,000 people. Read Here.
Read MoreFor a week, people have been waylaid at pharmacies after a unit of the nation’s largest insurer was shut down by a possible ransomware assault. Read Here.
Read MoreHP Wolf Security’s Cyber Division report reveals a new method that involves using online advertising tools to analyse and optimize cyber attacks. Read Here.
Read MoreSerco Leisure has been ordered to stop using facial recognition technology (FRT) and fingerprint scanning to monitor employee attendance by the UK’s data protection enforcement authority. Read here for the full article. Be sure to check out our video on ‘Employee monitoring’, as Mike Gillespie FCIIS MSyI CIRM covered monitoring within businesses and why they do it. […]
Read MoreThe UK has led an operation to disrupt what is thought to be the world’s largest criminal ransomware group. Read via BBC News.
Read MoreI write this as someone with first-hand experience in information security and its management and also experience in Policing, having served part of my career as a frontline Police Constable; this combination allows me to clearly observe the lack of information management within policing. In 2007, the movie Hot Fuzz starring Simon Pegg and Nick […]
Read MoreDating apps are increasing in popularity year by year, which means that there’s more people available for scammers to target. But first and foremost, what is a romance scam? It is a type of scam that involves a fraudster building a (false) personal relationship with their victim, only to ask them for money – to […]
Read MoreOnly 6 months ago the Government was urged to release more details about it’s plans to increase the use of AI to risk-score benefits claims. In the summer, The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) revealed it’s plans to widen the use of Artificial Intelligence to tackle fraud following the uplift in fraudulent claims during […]
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