Category: Industry News
News and information from the Advent IM team.
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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Russia Report reveals long-running cyber warfare campaign against UK
- by Ellie Hurst
- Industry News
Russia has been hacking the UK for years and the British government has also known about it for years, according to the Intelligence and Security Committee’s report. Read Alex Scroxton’s story in Computer Weekly.
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ICO: Contact tracing – protecting customer and visitor details
- by Ellie Hurst
- Industry News
We understand that organisations have lots of new measures to put in place so that they can re-open safely to the public. For many, this includes collecting customers’ and visitors’ personal information for the first time, to support the various contact tracing schemes in the UK. GO to ICO site
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Government proposes IoT security enforcement body – Computer Weekly
- by Ellie Hurst
- Industry News
The government is today publishing new proposals concerning planned legislation that will protect users of smart IoT devices from cyber criminals. Read the story by Alex Scroxton in Computer Weekly
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