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• by Anthony Orjally
• Industry News

For a week, people have been waylaid at pharmacies after a unit of the nation’s largest insurer was shut down by a possible ransomware assault. Read Here.

• by Anthony Orjally
• Industry News

HP Wolf Security’s Cyber Division report reveals a new method that involves using online advertising tools to analyse and optimize cyber attacks. Read Here.

• by Anthony Orjally
• Industry News

Serco Leisure has been ordered to stop using facial recognition technology (FRT) and fingerprint scanning to monitor employee attendance by the UK’s data protection enforcement authority. Read here for the full article. Be sure to check out our video on ‘Employee monitoring’, as Mike Gillespie FCIIS MSyI CIRM covered monitoring within businesses and why they do it. […]

• by Anthony Orjally
• Industry News

The UK has led an operation to disrupt what is thought to be the world’s largest criminal ransomware group. Read via BBC News.

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
• General

I write this as someone with first-hand experience in information security and its management and also experience in Policing, having served part of my career as a frontline Police Constable; this combination allows me to clearly observe the lack of information management within policing. In 2007, the movie Hot Fuzz starring Simon Pegg and Nick […]

• by Anthony Orjally
• Advent IM Blog

Dating apps are increasing in popularity year by year, which means that there’s more people available for scammers to target. But first and foremost, what is a romance scam? It is a type of scam that involves a fraudster building a (false) personal relationship with their victim, only to ask them for money – to […]

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
• General

Only 6 months ago the Government was urged to release more details about it’s plans to increase the use of AI to risk-score benefits claims. In the summer, The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) revealed it’s plans to widen the use of Artificial Intelligence to tackle fraud following the uplift in fraudulent claims during […]

• by Anthony Orjally
• Advent IM Blog

Using the internet can be an amazing thing… but can also be dangerous. As a newcomer in security, I’ve been able to understand that my previous actions left me at risk of my data being available to anyone! For Safer Internet Day, this blog will cover how you can have not just a safer day, […]

• by Anthony Orjally
• Advent IM Blog

In this year’s edition from Consciously Incompetent Productions, we’re excited to bring to you Barking Mad! A spin off from Breaking Bad, as we discuss all things Data Protection in a light hearted but serious way.   Click Here to watch the full video!