Category: Industry News
News and information from the Advent IM team.
Shrinking PQC timeline highlights immediate risk to data security
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
Google’s decision to move up its timeline for migration to post-quantum cryptography highlights that some of the cyber security risks posed by quantum computing are already reality Read via Computerweekly.com
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European Commission Confirms Cloud Data Breach
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
The European Commission has admitted that hackers may have taken data from the cloud infrastructure hosting its Europa.eu platform. Read via InfoSecurityMag.
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UK MoD awards more than two dozen contracts for AI targeting systems
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
The UK Ministry of Defence is ramping up its investment into military artificial intelligence in a bid to increase the ‘lethality’ of the British armed forces Read more via Computer Weekly.
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State-sponsored hackers targeting defence sector employees, Google says
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
Cyber-espionage campaigns are targeting employees directly, including through hiring processes, report claims Read via The Guardian.
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Lloyds probes banking glitch exposing customer transactions
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
Users could see wage payments, benefit transfers and National Insurance numbers. Read via Computing.
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Europe leads on AI regulation, UK and USA lag behind
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
The UK is trailing in the race to regulate AI, according to new research examining how governments around the world are responding to the rapid rise of the technology. Read more via Computing.co.uk
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NCSC: No increase in cyber threat from Iran, but be prepared
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
In the wake of a major series of new US and Israel-led attacks on Iran and subsequent retaliatory strikes on Gulf states including Bahrain, Kuwait and the UAE, the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has reassured British organisations that there is likely no significant change in the direct cyber threat posed by Iranian actors. Read via […]
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ICO wins appeal over data protection obligations in Currys cyber attack
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
The UK Information Commissioner’s Office has won an important appeal relating to data protection obligations arising from a 2017-18 cyber attack at electronics retailer Currys PC World. Read more via ComputerWeekly.
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AI Skills Represent Dangerous New Attack Surface, Says TrendAI
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
The so-called “AI skills” used to scale and execute AI operations are dangerously exposed to data theft, sabotage and disruption, TrendAI has warned. Read via Infosecurity Magazine.
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Russia’s cyber attacks on Polish utilities draws NCSC alert
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
A series of cyber attacks against the Polich electricity grid that unfolded at the end of December 2025 have prompted a fresh warning from the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), alerting British utilities to the dangers of intrusions orchestrated by Russian state threat actors. Read the full story on ComputerWeekly.com
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