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News and information from the Advent IM team.

Investigation into hacked “map” of UK gun owners
  • by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
  • General

Authorities are investigating after a map claiming to show the addresses of thousands of firearms owners in the UK was published online. Gun-selling site Guntrader announced a data breach affecting more than 100,000 customers in July. Read via BBC News.

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We Return to our Roots, 17 years on
  • by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
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We have gone full circle and after 17 years, have returned to the place where it all started. In 2004, we moved into our first office space at Cradley Enterprise Centre and in less than twenty years, have gone from one information security man with a laptop, to a respected cyber security consultancy with a […]

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Pandemic Challenges Bring Success to Information and Cyber Security Consultancy
  • by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
  • General

**PRESS RELEASE** Media Contact: Ellie Hurst  +44 (0) 121 559 6699, bestpractice@advent-im.co.uk Date : 02 SEP 2021 Pandemic Challenges Bring Success to Information and Cyber Security Consultancy Despite the challenges of the last 18 months one information security firm, Advent IM Ltd, has seen massive growth as the move to remote and hybrid working increases […]

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Nine cyber attacks on UK’s transport sector missed by mandatory reporting laws

The thresholds set for the mandatory reporting of cyber incidents across the energy, transport, health, water, and digital infrastructure sectors are so high that few if any incidents are actually being reported to government. Nine cyber attacks affecting the British transport sector were missed by the UK’s mandatory reporting laws and were only disclosed to […]

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UK Suffers £1.3bn in Losses to Fraud and Cybercrime this Year

Newly published data collated by the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau shows a huge spike in fraud and cybercrime so far in 2021. The UK has seen a three-fold increase in financial losses incurred from fraud and cybercrimes in the first six months of 2021. In total, £1.3bn has been lost to these kinds of crimes, a stark […]

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Professional Security Magazine x Mike Gillespie – Buildings that can harm
  • by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
  • General

The recent news of the Modipwn vulnerability, highlights again how real this problem is; it has not gone away. While this Modicon attack is specific to a certain technology, what it shows is that effectively any of these legacy PLCs (programmable logic controllers) and associated technologies, could cause the take over of a smart building. […]

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Advent IM’s Weekend Wisdom 20/08/2021

This week on Weekend Wisdom, it has been a busy week in news, with the major story of the week being the T-Mobile data breach, which resulted in the leak of 100 million customer records. Europol has shut down a cyber fraud ring that defrauded companies in 20 countries, and the Information Commissioner’s Office has […]

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