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Dedicated cybercrime units get multi-million pound cash injection
- by Ellie Hurst
- Uncategorized
The NPCC lead for cybercrime, Chief Constable Peter Goodman, said it was a significant step forward in improving the overall response to cybercrime in England and Wales.
Read MoreTwo out of three hotels accidentally leak guests’ personal data: Symantec
- by Ellie Hurst
- Uncategorized
(Reuters) Two out of three hotel websites inadvertently leak guests booking details and personal data to third-party sites, including advertisers and analytics companies, according to research released by Symantec Corp on Wednesday.
Read MoreKing’s College London internal memo cops to account ‘compromise’ as uni resets passwords
- by Ellie Hurst
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Exclusive Kings College London has suffered an IT worry but this time not of its own making yesterday it warned staff and students that some accounts have been compromised due to an apparent brute-force attack on password systems.
Read More60 percent of Leicestershire businesses have been hit by cybercrime
- by Ellie Hurst
- Uncategorized
60 percent of Leicestershire businesses have suffered a significant cyber incident in the last 12-months, according to a survey by local cyber experts at financial and business advisers Grant Thornton UK LLP.
Read MoreUK hacker jailed for six years for blackmailing pornography site users
- by Ellie Hurst
- Uncategorized
A hacker who blackmailed users of pornography websites in what investigators say is the UK’s most serious cybercrime case has been jailed for six years and five months.
Read MoreThe most significant and worst data breaches of 2018
- by Ellie Hurst
- Uncategorized
If your data wasn’t leaked last year, you’re lucky. The information of more than a billion people was compromised in 2018 as many of the companies we trust failed to protect our data.
Read MoreUK councils team up to boost cyber security
- by Ellie Hurst
- Uncategorized
Three UK councils and data analysis firm Splunk have teamed up to improve cyber defence capabilities and maintain their security systems. Orbis, a partnership of three local councils in Southeast England, has teamed up with big data analysis firm Splunk to improve their ability to protect data and defend against cyber attacks.
Read MoreNine in 10 CNI Providers Damaged by Cyber-Attacks
- by Ellie Hurst
- Uncategorized
Some 90% of critical infrastructure (CNI) providers claim that their IT/OT environment has been damaged by a cyber-attack over the past two years, according to a new Ponemon Institute report.
Read MoreThe top 10 biggest security breaches of 2019 (so far)
- by Ellie Hurst
- Uncategorized
Barely a week passes these days without reports of a major security breach collections of credentials found for sale on the so-called dark web, software update systems compromised, and companies subjected
Read MoreWindrush: Home Office admits data breach in compensation scheme
- by Ellie Hurst
- Uncategorized
The Home Office has admitted breaching data protection rules when it launched the Windrush compensation scheme. The department sent information to Windrush migrants in a way that meant their email addresses could be seen by other people.
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