Tag: cyber attack
News and information from the Advent IM team.
Manchester United hit by cyber attack but say fan data safe
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
Manchester United have been hit by a “sophisticated” cyber attack. The club, who host West Bromwich Albion at Old Trafford on Saturday, say they are confident there has not been a breach of personal data of fans. read via BBCNews.
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Attacks on Pharma Rise Amid Targeting of #COVID19 Vaccine Development
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
Attacks on the biotech and pharmaceutical industry have risen by 50% in 2020 compared to 2019, according to a new report from BlueVoyant. Read via InfoSecurityMag.
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Ticketmaster fined £1.25m over payment data breach
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
Ticketmaster UK has been fined £1.25m for failing to keep its customers’ personal data secure. The fine was issued by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) following a cyber-attack on the Ticketmaster website in 2018. Read via BBC NEWS.
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Open University Targeted With Over a Million Malicious Email Attacks So Far This Year
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
The UK’s Open University has been targeted with over 1 million malicious email attacks from January to September this year, according to official figures obtained by the think tank Parliament Street following a Freedom of Information (FoI) request. Read via InfoSecurityMag.
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Hotel booking firm exposes data on “millions” of guests
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
Prestige Software, a hotel reservation platform used by Hotels.com, Booking.com, and Expedia, left data belonging to “millions” of guests exposed on a misconfigured Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 bucket. Read via ItPro.
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PODCAST: The State of the Nation State with Phil Ingram MBE
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
In this episode we chew the fat with Phil Ingram MBE and look at the escalation of nation state activity and how it affects everyone’s every day lives, both digitally through cyber attacks and in real life such as the Salisbury poisonings. https://www.advent-im.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Propoganda-and-the-State-of-Nation-State-Activity-online-audio-converter.com_.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS
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Lets talk about some ‘highly sophisticated’ cyber attacks…
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
Advent IM MD, Mike Gillespie It seems to have become quite popular these days to refer to any attack on infrastructure, especially when it involves Government or Critical Infrastructure, as coming from a ‘sophisticated threat actor’. However, the truth is often that the attack has been facilitated by negligent but accidental internal behaviours, through poor […]
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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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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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