Category: Industry News
News and information from the Advent IM team.
Hackney council files including alleged passport documents leaked online after cyber attack
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
The attack has coincided with the pandemic to severely disrupt housing services in the East London council. Read via Sky News.
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British Airways Plans £3bn Breach Settlement
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
The UK’s flag-carrier airline is planning to begin settlement discussions that could see customers who became the victims of a data breach receive a compensation payout of up to £3bn. Read via InfoSecurityMag.
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Microsoft Says SolarWinds Hackers Viewed Its Source Code
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
Microsoft says SolarWinds hacking group penetrated its internal systems and viewed source code, but downplays security threat Read via Silicon.
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T-Mobile data breach sees phone numbers and call records leaked online
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
US telecom’s cybersecurity team discovered malicious, unauthorized access to its systems Read via Tech Radar.
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UK firm NOW: Pensions tells some customers a ‘service partner’ leaked their data all over ‘public software forum’
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
Workplace pension provider NOW: Pensions has emailed a number of UK customers to warn about a data leakage caused by contractor error. Read via The Register.
Read MoreUS nuclear weapons agency breached in cyber attack
- by Ellie Hurst
- Industry News
CISA has warned about the difficulty of completely ridding the government network of malware. Read story via Dev Kundaliya in Computing
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People’s Energy data breach affects all 270,000 customers
- by Ellie Hurst
- Industry News
The company People’s Energy has contacted all its 270,000 current customers, following a data breach. Read story via Zoe Kleinman for the BBC
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Cybersecurity – Are Smart Buildings and its Data Vulnerable to Malware Attacks?
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM News Industry News
As more and more of a building’s functions are automated and controlled via smart technology systems, has cybersecurity been an afterthought? Read Mike Gillespie’s article in TWINFM.com
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Apple Launches Privacy Labels For App Store Apps
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
Advertiser setback? Apple confirms apps on its App Store will now have to carry labels explaining how user data will be used Read via Silicon.
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Twitter Fined Half a Million Dollars for Privacy Violation
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
Twitter has been fined over half a million dollars for violating European Union data protection laws in the first EU-wide privacy case. Read via InfoSecurityMag.
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