Category: Industry News
News and information from the Advent IM team.
Coronavirus: Serco apologises for sharing contact tracers’ email addresses
- by Ellie Hurst
- Industry News
Outsourcing firm Serco has apologised after accidentally sharing the email addresses of almost 300 contact tracers. Read via BBC
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Coronavirus: UK forces hundreds of scam Covid-19 shops offline
- by Ellie Hurst
- Industry News
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) said it took down more than 2,000 online coronavirus scams last month. NCSC said this included 471 fake online shops that were selling fraudulent virus-related items. Read full story on BBC
Read MoreCoronavirus: Why are there doubts over contact-tracing apps?
- by Ellie Hurst
- Industry News
There are growing tensions over the best approach to coronavirus contact-tracing apps and whether or not the technology can live up to its promise. Smartphone software is being developed to alert users when someone they were recently near becomes infected. Read the full story via BBC
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ICO: Data protection and coronavirus – what you need to know
- by Ellie Hurst
- Industry News
The ICO recognises the unprecedented challenges we are all facing during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Read the full post from the ICO here.
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Arsenal FC sees increase in cyber crime attempts during Coronavirus pandemic
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
Arsenal Football Club is seeing an increase in hackers attempting to exploit the global crisis, according to the club’s IT director Christelle Heikkila. Read via diginomica.com
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Travelex paid $2.3 million in ransom to restore its systems
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
Criminals allegedly asked for $3 million. Read more via ItProPortal.
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Another COVID-19 Research Firm Targeted by Ransomware Attack
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
Hackers hit biotech research firm 10x Genomics with a ransomware attack amid work on potential COVID-19 treatments; two email security hacks complete this week’s breach roundup. Read via HealthITSecurity.
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UK Supreme Court judgment on Morrisons: good news for employers, but the risk of claims (and fines) for data breaches remains
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
Read via Lexology.
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Survey: 37% of workers unaware of ransomware, putting businesses at risk
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
Almost 40% of employees surveyed admitted to not knowing what ransomware is, and many of them have already been victims, according to security provider Kaspersky. Read via TechRepublic.
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Marriott confirms data breach impacting up to 5.2 million people
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
The company has notified guests whose information was compromised in the incident Read via Computing.
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