Stratford provides update on cyber attack

The City of Stratford is continuing to deal with the fallout of a cyber-attack and it will likely day days before services return to normal. The virus locked city staff out of their own systems and encrypted the date, the process to reverse this is said to take several days. Read full story.

Posted by Smeeta Padhiar
On 23rd April 2019
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Business briefing: Cyber crime soars as 61% of companies are attacked

CYBER attacks against businesses have rocketed with six out of ten companies reporting at least one incident last year, a survey has revealed. The financial cost related to cyber crime also sharply increased, with the average loss reported at £283,000 — up nearly two thirds on the previous year. Read full story.

Posted by Smeeta Padhiar
On 23rd April 2019
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Pupils’ data ‘at risk’ in hack attack on Kings Norton Girls’ School

The personal data of almost 1,000 girls and their families is at risk after a hacking attack on a Birmingham school. Parents with children at Kings Norton Girls’ School were told there was an “extremely small but potential breach of personal data relating to you and your child”. Read full story.

Posted by Smeeta Padhiar
On 16th April 2019
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Mike Gillespie in Computer Weekly – Security Think Tank: Aim for integrated resilience, continuity and recovery

How should businesses plan to survive a potential cyber attack extinction event? Up to recent time, perhaps the past couple of years, when I talked about the possibility of an extinction event from a cyber attack, the perspectives of the vast majority of people were still entirely focused on this being an exfiltration, manipulation or […]

Posted by Smeeta Padhiar
On 12th April 2019
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Most organisations still lack incident response plans

Most companies lack incident response plans, others fail to test them and nearly half are not GDPR compliant, but some report improved security through automation, a study shows. Read full story.

Posted by Smeeta Padhiar
On 11th April 2019
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60 percent of Leicestershire businesses have been hit by cybercrime

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 full story.

Posted by Smeeta Padhiar
On 9th April 2019
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Businesses and charities urged to take action to prevent cyber attacks

New statistics from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) have shown a reduction in the percentage of businesses suffering a cyber breach or attack in the last year. Read full story.

Posted by Smeeta Padhiar
On 3rd April 2019
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Hundreds of compromised WordPress and Joomla websites are serving up malware to visitors

Researchers see a spike in compromised domains attempting to deliver malicious payloads including Shade ransomware and phishing links. Read full story.

Posted by Ellie Hurst
On 29th March 2019
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Man charged over Cheshire and Greater Manchester Police cyber-attacks

A man has been charged over cyber-attacks which targeted the websites of two police forces. Liam Reece Watts, 19, of Stratford Road in Chorley, Lancashire, faces two counts of unauthorised acts with intent to impair operation of or prevent access to a computer. Read full story.

Posted by Smeeta Padhiar
On 28th March 2019
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Half of industrial control system networks have faced cyber attacks, say security researchers

Industrial control systems in manufacturing, energy, chemical and other environments are coming under an increasing number of cyber attacks, as hacking groups of all kinds attempt to breach these networks. Read full story.

Posted by Smeeta Padhiar
On 27th March 2019
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