Category: Industry News

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
• Industry News

Two-fifths of UK firms have been hit by ransomware over the past year, and although they were the least likely to pay a ransom globally, those that did paid out some of the highest sums, according to CrowdStrike. Read via InfoSecurityMag

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
• Industry News

Ticketmaster UK has been fined £1.25m for failing to keep its customers’ personal data secure. The fine was issued by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) following a cyber-attack on the Ticketmaster website in 2018. Read via BBC NEWS.

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
• Industry News

The UK’s privacy watchdog has told the country’s largest political parties to make urgent improvements to their data handling practices, following concerns that many voters are unaware of how their information is being used. Read via InfoSecurityMag.

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
• Industry News

The UK’s Open University has been targeted with over 1 million malicious email attacks from January to September this year, according to official figures obtained by the think tank Parliament Street following a Freedom of Information (FoI) request. Read via InfoSecurityMag.

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
• Industry News

A Critical National Infrastructure (CNI)-specific look at NCSC guidance on remote access architecture design. Remote Access is an essential feature of just about any realistic IT (and OT) estate. Read via NCSC.

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
• Industry News

Prestige Software, a hotel reservation platform used by Hotels.com, Booking.com, and Expedia, left data belonging to “millions” of guests exposed on a misconfigured Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 bucket. Read via ItPro.

• by Ellie Hurst
• Industry News

So far there is no confirmation that any customer data is involved or compromised. Cyber criminals and criminal gangs will always be strongly attracted to gaming and gambling sites. Some users are very vulnerable to phishing and scamming, so even if there is no financial information stolen in a breach, the long term effects of […]

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
• Industry News

The NCSC’s fourth Annual Review reveals its ongoing work against cyber attacks, support for the UK during the coronavirus pandemic. Read via NCSC.

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
• Industry News

Employees are in desperate need of security training. Read via ItProPortal. 

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
• Industry News

The regulator had proposed to impose a £99 million fine on the hotel chain last year.   Read via Computing.co.uk