Category: Industry News
News and information from the Advent IM team.
What next for automated facial recognition? – Surveillance Camera Commissioner
- by Ellie Hurst
- Industry News
Today the Court of Appeal has handed down it’s judgment on South Wales Police use of automated facial recognition (R (Bridges) v Chief Constable of South Wales Police). Ed Bridges, supported by Liberty, has won on three grounds of his appeal. That the deployments were not in accordance with the law, that the South Wales Police […]
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Barclays Probed by U.K. Privacy Agency for Snooping on Staff
- by Ellie Hurst
- Industry News
Barclays Plc faces a U.K. privacy investigation over software that checks on what staff are doing, the Information Commissioner’s Office said Monday. Read story by Aoife White for Bloomberg.
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Redcar cyber-attack ‘cost council £10.4m’
- by Ellie Hurst
- Industry News
A cyber-attack on a council’s computer systems is estimated to have cost more than £10m. About 135,000 people were without online public services after Redcar and Cleveland’s website and computers were targeted in February. Read story via BBC
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British Dental Association members targeted by hackers
- by Ellie Hurst
- Industry News
Dental patient case notes and dentists’ bank details are feared to have been stolen in a hacking attack. Read story via BBC
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BA expects to pay just £20m for data breach
- by Ellie Hurst
- Industry News
The airline anticipates its fine will be written down by as much as 90pc from its initial £183m. Read story by Michael Cogley in The Telegraph.
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Twitter confirms it was hit by targeted spearphishing attack
- by Ellie Hurst
- Industry News
Investigation into 15 July 2020 hack of a number of high-profile accounts by cryptocurrency scammers has found evidence of a targeted spearphishing incident. Read story by Alex Scroxton in Computer Weekly.
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List of Blackbaud breach victims tops 120
- by Ellie Hurst
- Industry News
More than 120 education and third-sector organisations may have had their data compromised through the breach of Blackbaud’s cloud platform Read the story by Alex Scroxton for Computer Weekly
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National Trust joins victims of Blackbaud hack
- by Ellie Hurst
- Industry News
The UK’s National Trust is among a growing list of organisations to issue data breach alerts after an attack on cloud computing provider Blackbaud. Read story by Leo Kelion & Joe Tidy for BBC News
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Over Half of Universities Suffered Data Breach in Past Year
- by Ellie Hurst
- Industry News
Over half (54%) of UK universities reported a data breach to the regulator in the past 12 months, with an average of two reports each, according to new Freedom of Information (FOI) data collected by Redscan. Read full story by Phil Muncaster for Infosecurity Group
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Blackbaud Hack: Universities lose data to ransomware attack
- by Ellie Hurst
- Industry News
At least six universities in the UK and Canada have had student data stolen after hackers attacked a cloud computing provider. Read story by Joe Tidy & Leo Kelion for BBC
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