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• by Anthony Orjally
• Industry News

LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s Royal Mail said on Wednesday it was facing severe disruption to its international export services following what it described as “a cyber incident”. Read Here.

• by Anthony Orjally
• Advent IM Blog

Hello everyone, here’s a free £50! We’ll just take your personal information in return 🙂 This is what Chinese organisation Temu are doing, and masses of people are falling for it. Who are Temu? Temu are an online market place that offer heavily discounted prices for all goods. They originate from China, with their platform […]

• by Anthony Orjally
• Industry News

London-listed veterinary services company CVS Group says it “detected and intercepted” a cyber attack on its IT systems. Read Here.

• by Anthony Orjally
• Industry News

Home Depot has confirmed the data of around 10,000 employees was exposed and published online; The data includes corporate IDs, names, and email addresses, which could be used for targeted phishing attempts on the employees in order to gain access to Home Depot’s network. Read Here.

• by Ellie Hurst
• Advent IM Blog Advent IM News

We are a small business and it is not often we wave someone off to retirement. We have found ourselves reflecting, as a company as well as individuals, on our time with Derek Willins and decided to compile some of our memorable, funny, useful or sentimental moments here. “I’d quite like to be rather sincere […]

• by Anthony Orjally
• Industry News

Leicester City Council has acknowledged that some data on its IT systems was stolen in a cyber attack early last month. Read Here.

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
• General

Fewer UK organisations believe their cyber security postures have reached a mature level than did so 12 months ago, as they struggle to keep up with new challenges and a fast-evolving threat landscape Read via Computer Weekly.

• by Ellie Hurst
• Advent IM Blog

This is a bittersweet week for us at Advent IM as our own Head of Client Development, Derek Willins, retires. There can be no doubt of his contribution to Advent IM and to security and we will miss his insight, curiosity and collegiate approach that so exemplifies our core values. Derek kindly wrote a post […]

• by Ellie Hurst
• Advent IM Blog

A post from our MD, Mike Gillespie, on the recent outage impacts and lessons in resilience IT-based outages affecting McDonald’s, Sainsbury’s and Tesco were widely reported last weekend (15th and 16th March 2024), with many confused and angry customers taking to social media to warn others or make contact with the brands, seeking more information. […]

• by Anthony Orjally
• Industry News

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.