Category: Advent IM Blog
News and information from the Advent IM team.
The Labour Party cyber incident – Mike Gillespie’s opinion
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
During any election political parties make attractive targets to a whole range of online threat actors. This particular attack so far seems to be a low level and unsophisticated DDOS. Nothing unusual about this really, the proliferation of unsecured Internet connected devices has helped to make this an easy enough activity for even the most […]
Read MoreRegulating law enforcement use of automatic facial recognition
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
From Tony Porter, the UK Surveillance Camera Commissioner: Regulating law enforcement use of automatic facial recognition
Read MoreBanish the cyber ghouls…
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
British spooks expose Russian-based cyber hacking gang masquerading as Iranian crooks after they targeted a UK academic organisation
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Advent IM Blog
British spooks have exposed a Russian-based cyber hacking gang masquerading as Iranian crooks after they targeted an academic organisation in the UK. Read via Mail Online
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#CyberSecurityMonth and it’s the Top 10 WORST passwords!
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Advent IM Blog
Is your password still ‘12345’ or ‘password’ ? It’s time for change… Almost all of the current Top 10 WORST passwords have been in the Top 20 for the last 5 years. The threat will continue to increase as cyber criminals become smarter and more advanced as the years pass. With the increase number and […]
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Critical National Infrastructure and Supply Chain Threat
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
When we talk about Critical National Infrastructure (CNI), we are discussing a hugely mixed bag of organisations; utilities, education, banking, health etc. Some are in private or partially in private hands, others are non-UK owned (and also in private hands) and they have a variety of security challenges but one thing connects them, quite apart […]
Read MoreRansomware marches on..
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
The scourge of business, public sector and individuals, ransomware, shows no signs of abating and my heart sinks every time I see a headline where a vulnerability in an organsiation is exploited by this cynical malware. Most recently, students at a school in Plymouth, lost GCSE and and A level coursework after their school was […]
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The future belongs to those who have great Information Governance
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
This post is from our Head of Client Development, Derek Willins. Depending where you are in the world, to get an ounce of gold can mean having to mine up to 18 tons of dirt, to obtain it. The gold is valuable and prized, whilst the dirt valueless and piled up. In parallel, the digital […]
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Cybercrime and the Police part 1
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
Part one of a series of podcasts on policing challenges, innovations and responses to cybercrime, with the help of the Cyber Regional Organised Crime Unit (ROCU) for West Midlands Police. Part one features Patrick McBrearty from this unit in conversation with Mike Gillespie about his role and his experience, as well as an explanation of […]
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Advent IM On Tour 2019
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
Although we are at conferences throughout the year, we thought we would do a little snapshot of where we have been so far this year. You can see it on our YouTube channel https://youtu.be/J627Yybgiuw Music courtesy of www.templateswise.com
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