Category: Industry News
News and information from the Advent IM team.
ICO Bans Serco Leisure’s Use of Facial Recognition for Employee Attendance
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
Serco Leisure has been ordered to stop using facial recognition technology (FRT) and fingerprint scanning to monitor employee attendance by the UK’s data protection enforcement authority. Read here for the full article. Be sure to check out our video on ‘Employee monitoring’, as Mike Gillespie FCIIS MSyI CIRM covered monitoring within businesses and why they do it. […]
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Lockbit: UK leads disruption of major cyber-criminal gang
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
The UK has led an operation to disrupt what is thought to be the world’s largest criminal ransomware group. Read via BBC News.
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Southern Water confirms cyber attack after Black Basta claims
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
Southern Water, which supplies millions of customers in southeast England, has confirmed it has fallen victim to a cyber attack, although its services appear to be running normally. Read via ComputerWeekly.
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Henry Schein says 29K people affected in September cyber incident
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
The ransomware group AlphV/BlackCat has claimed responsibility for the data breach and a second incident involving the company. Read Here.
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Alarms raised after MoD signs contract with Silicon Valley defence tech start-up
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
Campaigners raised alarm bells today after the Ministry of Defence signed a £17 million contract with Silicon Valley defence tech startup Anduril. Read via MorningStar.
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After second cyberattack, Washington state county secures network
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
Officials in Clark County, Washington, said they’ve restored access to the county website and other services are back online after a “sophisticated cyberattack.” Read via StateScoop.
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Cyberattack of major mortgage servicer leaves customers without online payment option
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
Mortgage servicing firm Mr. Cooper has been dealing with a cyber attack for more than a week that has disrupted customers’ access to the company’s site and payment platform. Read via Fox Business.
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Toronto Public Library hit by cyber attack
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
Toronto Public Library’s services have been impacted following a cyber attack. Read via IT World Canada.
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Cyber Insecurity: Report Finds Majority of Enterprises Expect an Imminent Cyber Attack
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
IDC surveyed more than 500 security and IT operations leaders worldwide to get a current view of how organizations are perceiving modern security threats and approaching cyber resilience. Sixty-one percent of respondents believe that data loss within the next 12 months is “likely” to “highly likely” to occur due to increasingly sophisticated attacks. Read […]
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UK at risk of massive security breach from national IT meltdown
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
The government is warned of a ‘major’ cyberattack by Russian and Chinese hackers if they keep ignoring warnings to fix HMRC’s crumbling computer system. Read via The Independent.
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