Category: Industry News

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
• Industry News

Cyber incidents reported to the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority in 2021 are up by over 50%, with a fifth involving ransom software. In total, the FCA received 116 reports of material cyber security incidents in 2021, up from 76 in 2020. According to the FCA, an incident may be material if it: • results in […]

• by Ellie Hurst
• Industry News

The UK Data protection authority, the Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”), has fined Tuckers Solicitors £98,000 for multiple data breaches relating to the disclosure of their client’s court documents which were published on the dark web. This followed a ransomware attack by a hacker which resulted in 972,191 files being stolen from the firm. Read the […]

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
• Industry News

Ransomware attacks have more than doubled in the past year, driven by their increasing profitability for scammers. New data from international law firm RPC revealed that the number attacks reported to the Information Commissioner’s Office has increased 100 per cent from 326 in 2020 to 654 in 2021. Attacks often bring operations to a standstill, […]

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
• Industry News

There’s a long list of passwords that are so terrible that you should never, ever use them. One of the absolute worst is password, yet it keeps popping up in breaches. Just this week password allegedly allowed hackers to break in to a server, steal data and issue a $15 million ransom demand to the […]

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
• Industry News

Microsoft and authentication services provider Okta said they are investigating claims of a potential breach alleged by the LAPSUS$ extortionist gang. The development, which was first reported by Vice and Reuters, comes after the cyber criminal group posted screenshots and source code of what it said were the companies’ internal projects and systems on its […]

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
• Industry News

Ireland’s evasive response to a major security complaint filed against Google’s adtech the year the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into application is the target of a new lawsuit that accuses the Data Protection Commission (DPC) of years of inaction over what the complainants assert is “the largest data breach ever.” At […]

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
• Industry News

The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) on Tuesday slapped Facebook and WhatsApp owner Meta Platforms a fine of €17 million (~$18.6 million) for a series of security lapses that occurred in violation of the European Union’s GDPR laws in the region. “The DPC found that Meta Platforms failed to have in place appropriate technical and […]

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
• Industry News

THE Crown Prosecution Service has admitted putting victims of crime at risk, by mistakenly giving out personal details to suspected criminals. Victims in more than 50 cases were told their secret personal details such as health records, addresses and contact details had been accidentally handed to the defence. All the blunders by CPS staff were […]

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
• Industry News

The Strategic Review of Policing confirms the central role that tech will be playing going forward, but warns of the need for greater ethical scrutiny to ensure public trust The UK’s “largely analogue police service” needs a major tech update to deal with proliferation of digitally enabled crime, but new technologies also need much better […]

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
• Industry News

Google is to purchase cybersecurity firm Mandiant for $5.4 billion, hoping to boost its cloud security solutions as companies are facing a flood of cyberattacks on their systems. The Mandiant deal is Google’s second-largest transaction ever, behind its $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola a decade ago. Google says the acquisition will enable its cloud unit […]