Category: Industry News
News and information from the Advent IM team.
AI Coding Tools Need Built-In Security for Agentic Development Era
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
Security must be embedded directly into AI coding tools to mitigate emerging risks associated with agentic development, Ox Security has claimed. Read the full story via Infosecurity Magazine.
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UK Visa Portal breach exposes 100,000 applicants’ details
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
A security lapse has exposed passport photos, selfies and other identifying information at third-party visa website UK Visa Portal. Read the full story via Computing.
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NHS moves to national patient record system with mandatory data sharing
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
Single Patient Record aims to unify health and social care data Read the full story via Computing.com
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NHS England withdraws public software over AI hacking fears
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
NHS England is moving to take down publicly accessible software repositories, citing concerns that emerging AI tools such as Mythos could be used to uncover and exploit vulnerabilities in its systems. Read via Computing.
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Details of 500,000 people on Biobank health database hit by hack
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
The details of 500,000 members of the UK’s health data project, the Biobank, were offered for sale online in China, the UK Government has confirmed. Read via The National.
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Finance regulators to address AI risks after MPs say they are ‘not doing enough’
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
After a Treasury committee stated that public and finance systems are ‘exposed to potential serious harm’ from AI because regulators are ‘not doing enough’ to manage risks, finance regulators say they will take action to address concerns. Read via Computer Weekly.
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Booking.com confirms customer data accessed in cyber incident
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
Travel booking platform Booking.com has confirmed that hackers accessed customer information following what it described as “suspicious activity” involving unauthorised third parties. Read via Computing.com
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Cyberattack disrupts Northern Ireland school network, affecting thousands of pupils
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
Around 300,000 pupils and 20,000 teachers rely on the system Read via Computing.com.
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Most CNI Firms Face Up to £5m in Downtime from OT Attacks
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
The vast majority (80%) of critical national infrastructure (CNI) providers in the UK face downtime costs of between £100,000 ($132,144) and £5m ($6.6m) from cyber-attacks that disrupt their operational technology (OT), according to e2e-assure. Read via InfoSecurityMag.
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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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