Category: Industry News
News and information from the Advent IM team.
UK Government Staff Lost 500+ Devices Last Year
- by Smeeta Padhiar
- Industry News
UK government workers have lost over 500 mobile devices and laptops over the past year, with just a small percentage ever recovered, according to new research from MobileIron. The security vendor issued Freedom of Information (FOI) requests to nine government departments, all but one of which replied. It found that public sector employees managed to […]
Read MoreNCSC calls out Microsoft over Dmarc reports
- by Smeeta Padhiar
- Industry News
The UK’s cyber security agency has called out Microsoft for seriously undermining global email security by failing to provide crucial reports from its email platforms. Microsoft stopped sending any form of domain-based message authentication, reporting and conformance (Dmarc) protocol reports from any of its email platforms in late 2017, according to the latest report by […]
Read MoreAirport email scam thwarted by UK’s cyber-defender NCSC
- by Smeeta Padhiar
- Industry News
An attempt to defraud thousands of people using a bogus email from a UK airport was one of a range of cyber-attacks prevented last year. The scam used a fake gov.uk address, but the messages were prevented from ever reaching their intended recipients. Read full story.
Read MoreData breach whistleblower reports to ICO jump 175% in the year since GDPR
- by Smeeta Padhiar
- Industry News
The number of whistleblower reports to the ICO over data breaches has jumped 175% in the year since the introduction of GDPR, from 138 in 2017/18 to 379 in 2018/19*, says City-headquartered law firm RPC. RPC says that the introduction of GDPR in May 2018 has made people significantly more vigilant and aware about the […]
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