Category: Advent IM Blog

News and information from the Advent IM team.

*Interview* Ellie Hurst, Women in Cyber

Ellie Hurst, (@Advent_IM_Comms) fell into the cyber security industry almost “by accident”. But in the last 8 years she’s become a passionate industry advocate. Read the interview with Cyber Challenge UK.  

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The Labour Party cyber incident – Mike Gillespie’s opinion

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 […]

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#CyberSecurityMonth and it’s the Top 10 WORST passwords!

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

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 […]

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Ransomware marches on..

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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