Category: Industry News
News and information from the Advent IM team.
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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Cyber attack payment ‘due in January’ with council ‘desperately trying to plan services’
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
Redcar and Cleveland Council has been waiting for the Government to cover the costs of a multi-million cyber attack on its IT systems for many months Read via GazetteLive.
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US government, thousands of businesses now thought to have been affected by SolarWinds security attack
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
Orion software updates were used to deploy the Sunburst malware, leading to massive supply chain attack Read via TechRadar.
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Data Leak Exposes Details of Two Million Chinese Communist Party Members
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
Sensitive data of around two million members of the Communist Party of China (CPC) have been leaked, highlighting their positions in major organizations, including government agencies, throughout the world. Read via InfoSecurityMag.
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Hackers compromise Subway UK’s marketing system to deliver TrickBot malware
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
No evidence of guest accounts having compromised by hackers but sandwich firm advises anyone who may have downloaded malware to perform a thorough scan of their machine Read via Computing.
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Google outage: YouTube, Docs and Gmail knocked offline
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
Google applications including YouTube, email and Docs have suffered a rare service outage, with users unable to access many of the company’s services. Read via BBC News.
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NCSC Opens Registration for 2021 CyberFirst Girls Competition
- by Ellie Hurst
- Industry News
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has announced its annual CyberFirst Girls Competition is now open for registrations, with a mission to inspire the next generation of young women to pursue a career in the industry. Read story by Phil Muncaster in Infosecurity Magazine
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