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• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
• Industry News

Energy firm Npower has closed down its app following an attack that exposed some customers’ financial and personal information. Read via BBC News. 

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
• Industry News

Over a third (35%) of global healthcare organizations suffered cloud data theft by malicious insiders last year, according to data from Netwrix. Read via InfoSecurityMag. 

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
• Industry News

Some companies sell their old hardware without checking it for sensitive data. Read via ItProPortal. 

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
• Industry News

Critical infrastructure at risk: researchers identify over 43,000 unprotected SCADA devices. Read via ItProPortal 

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
• Industry News

Global ransomware attacks against universities doubled year-on-year in 2020 as the pandemic forced massive changes to higher education, according to BlueVoyant. Read via InfoSecurityMag. 

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
• Industry News

GCHQ says AI can be used widely in the fight against disinformation – and will commit to using it ethically. Read via Sky News. 

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
• Industry News

Proof-of-concept exploit code has been published online earlier today, and active scans for vulnerable VMware systems have been detected already. read via ZDNet.

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
• General

The vast majority (86%) of critical national infrastructure (CNI) organizations in the UK have experienced cyber-attacks on their operational technology (OT) and industrial control systems (ICS) in the past 12 months, according to a new study by Bridewell Consulting.   Read via InfoSecurityMag. 

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
• Industry News

A majority of businesses now regard state-sponsored or led attacks as a major threat, marking a potentially critical shift in perception, according to new research from the Economist Intelligence Unit. Read via InfoSecurityMag. 

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
• General

The BBC has reported the theft of 105 electrical devices from its premises over the last two years, according to data obtained following a Freedom of Information (FoI) request by litigation firm Griffin Law. The findings have raised fears that confidential information contained in these devices will have fallen into the hands of malicious actors. […]