Category: Industry News
News and information from the Advent IM team.
HMRC Records 73% Growth in Email Phishing Attacks During #COVID19
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
The UK’s HMRC detected a 73% rise in email phishing attacks in the six months that the COVID-19 pandemic struck the country, according to official data obtained following a FOI request by accountancy firm Lanop Outsourcing. Read via InfoSecurityMag.
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MoD Receives Funding Boost and Confirms Increase in Cyber-Spending
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
The UK government has dedicated an extra £16.5bn to defense spending which will see a heavy investment in cybersecurity defense and offensive capabilities. Read via InfoSecurityMag.
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Attacks on Pharma Rise Amid Targeting of #COVID19 Vaccine Development
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
Attacks on the biotech and pharmaceutical industry have risen by 50% in 2020 compared to 2019, according to a new report from BlueVoyant. Read via InfoSecurityMag.
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Employees Have Access to an Average of 10 Million Files
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
The average employee has access to around 10.8 million files, with larger organizations having around 20 million files accessible. Read via InfoSecurityMag
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UK Firms Least Likely to Pay Ransom Globally
- 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
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Ticketmaster fined £1.25m over payment data breach
- 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.
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ICO Demands Urgent Data Protection Changes from UK Parties
- 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.
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Open University Targeted With Over a Million Malicious Email Attacks So Far This Year
- 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.
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CNI system design: Secure Remote Access
- 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.
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Hotel booking firm exposes data on “millions” of guests
- 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.
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