Category: Industry News
News and information from the Advent IM team.
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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Bank of Ireland to pay €350k over alleged data breach that saw woman stalked by estranged father
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
The High Court has ordered Bank of Ireland to pay a €350,000 settlement to a woman and her partner, who alleged her data was released to her estranged father who used it to find the couple abroad and stalk them. Read Here.
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Man denies terrorism offences over PSNI data breach
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
A Londonderry man has denied terrorism offences linked to a major data breach by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI). Read Here.
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Phishing Campaign Uses Havoc Framework to Control Infected Systems
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
A new phishing campaign leveraging the open-source Havoc command-and-control (C2) framework has been discovered. Read Here.
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Pentagon chief orders US spies to ‘deprioritise’ Russian cyber threats
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
The new US defence secretary has ordered the nation’s Cyber Command to halt planning to counter threats from Russia, according to reports. Read Here.
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Southern Water says Black Basta ransomware attack cost £4.5M in expenses
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
United Kingdom water supplier Southern Water has disclosed that it incurred costs of £4.5 million ($5.7M) due to a cyberattack it suffered in February 2024. Read Here.
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