Tag: cybercrime

News and information from the Advent IM team.

Cybercrime in the pandemic

From Advent IM MD, Mike Gillespie. In a few short months the words ‘terrorism’, ‘conflict’ and ‘war’ have all but disappeared from our news programming. ‘Pandemic’, ‘coronavirus’ and COVID-19 now dominate not ony news but everyday conversatons, social media interactions and what feels like very waking moment. Sadly, 2020 has brought fear, uncertainty and financial […]

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Julia’s #Rules to Ransomware Safety

From Advent IM Director, Julia McCarron For those of you who read my irregular blogs, you’ll know I have a passion for the TV series NCIS. When I say passion more of an obsession really. So imagine the irony when they air an episode in the UK about Ransomware, in the wake of the world’s […]

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2017 Security Predictions from the Advent IM Team

At this time of year we like to make security predictions for the year to come. Ho Ho Oh dear…     Mike Gillespie – Director I predict – further growth and sophistication in phishing attacks, and as a result of these successful attacks and continuing low quality user awareness and education, an increase in the […]

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Aviva 2nd Data Breach

Advent IM Security Consultant Del Brazil, gives us his thoughts on the Aviva data breach. For the second time in less than two years Aviva have reported a data breach in which customer data has been released to person(s) unknown.  It is unclear at this time as to whether it a procedural issue, a technical misconfiguration […]

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CRIME OF OUR GENERATION – A Look at the TalkTalk Breach

A review from Advent IM Security Consultant, Chris Cope. The TalkTalk hack has left another major UK business reeling from a cyber attack and customers angry as, once again, there is a possibility that sensitive information is now in the public domain.  The telecommunications company decided to take its own website offline on Wednesday following […]

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Watch out for those iPhone/iPad phishing emails

For reasons far too dull to expand upon, there were no Apple products in my stocking this year. I have however, had a mountain of email telling me to click through various links in order to re-register my iPad, to download a free app or piece of music, and a variety of other things. Also for […]

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