Category: Industry News
News and information from the Advent IM team.
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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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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