Category: Industry News
News and information from the Advent IM team.
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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Capcom security breach disclosure
- 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 […]
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NCSC defends UK from more than 700 cyber attacks while supporting national pandemic response
- 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.
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Lack of training singled out as greatest threat to cybersecurity during lockdown
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
Employees are in desperate need of security training. Read via ItProPortal.
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ICO lowers Marriott data breach fine to £18.4 million
- 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
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Security Threats Facing Universities
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
As universities and colleges across the UK return for a new academic year, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has warned IT security teams to be on their guard against cyber-attacks, particularly ransomware. Read via InfoSecurity Mag.
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ICO Hits British Airways With Record-Breaking GDPR Fine For 2018 Data Breach
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined British Airways £20 million ($25.85 million) following a 2018 data breach affecting more than 400,000 of the airline’s customers. Read via Forbes.
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Over half of UK firms hit with phishing attacks, over a third suffered ransomware during pandemic
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
UK firms believe cyberattacks escalated during the Covid-19 pandemic. Read via ItProPortal.
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