Category: Industry News
News and information from the Advent IM team.
DDoS Attacks on Financial Sector Surge in Scale and Sophistication
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
The financial industry has been particularly affected by large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks for years, but the recent escalating sophistication of these attacks marks a shift, according to the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC). Read Here.
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Council reprimanded after exposing sensitive data
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
A west London council has been reprimanded after personal details of more than 6,500 people including “sensitive” data about children was left online for almost two years. Read Here.
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89 Million Steam Accounts Allegedly Compromised in a Data Breach.
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
A recent data breach has reportedly affected users of Steam, Valve’s wildly popular online gaming store and distribution platform. Read Here.
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M&S says customer data stolen in cyber attack
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
Marks & Spencer has revealed that some personal customer data has been stolen in the recent cyber attack, which could include contact details and date of births.
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DeepSeek Breach Opens Floodgates to Dark Web
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
The incident should serve as a critical wake-up call. The stakes are simply too high to treat AI security as an afterthought — especially when the Dark Web stands ready to capitalize on every vulnerability. Read Here.
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Microsoft Secures MSA Signing with Azure Confidential VMs Following Storm-0558 Breach
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
Microsoft on Monday announced that it has moved the Microsoft Account (MSA) signing service to Azure confidential virtual machines (VMs) and that it’s also in the process of migrating the Entra ID signing service as well. Read Here.
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Government punts cyber governance code of practice for UK businesses
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology’s cyber security minister Feryal Clark announces a cyber security code of governance for UK businesses to follow Read Here.
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Concord Orthopaedics data breach impacted over 65,000 patients
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
Concord Orthopaedics said it experienced a significant data security incident in November that compromised the sensitive personal information of more than 65,000 individuals. Read Here.
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Oracle under fire for its handling of separate security incidents
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
Tech giant Oracle is facing criticism for how it’s handling two seemingly separate data breaches. Read Here.
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Oracle denies data breach after hacker claims to hold six million records
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
Oracle has denied suffering a cyberattack and a data breach, following claims from a hacker to have stolen millions of records from company servers. Read Here.
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