information security

Advent IM qualifies for Government framework and hires Derek Willins

Advent IM, a cybersecurity consultancy, has qualified for the new iteration Digital Outcomes and Specialists Framework 3, a UK Government supplier framework. Meanwhile, to continue the firm’s growth, the consultancy with offices in the Midlands and London has brought Derek Willins on board as Business Development Manager.  The UK Government’s Digital Outcomes and Specialists Framework […]
  • Posted by Smeeta Padhiar
  • On 16th October 2018
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Taxi firms slam Aberdeenshire Council’s new contract procurement scheme amid allegations of data breaches

Taxi firms have criticised Aberdeenshire Council’s “shambolic” new system for tendering school transport contracts.  The local authority spends about £13million on school transport every year, and has recently upgraded the tender process for taxi and bus contracts. But two firms have now separately complained about the way the council dealt with additional support needs (ASN) […]
  • Posted by Smeeta Padhiar
  • On 15th October 2018
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Google to shut down Google+ after failing to disclose user data leak

This March, as Facebook was coming under global scrutiny over the harvesting of personal data for Cambridge Analytica, Google discovered a skeleton in its own closet: a bug in the API for Google+ had been allowing third-party app developers to access the data not just of users who had granted permission, but of their friends. Read […]
  • Posted by Smeeta Padhiar
  • On 9th October 2018
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The newest iteration of the UK Government Marketplace, Digital Outcomes and Specialists Framework will include Advent IM

**Press Release**  Media Contact: Ellie Hurst +44 (0) 121 559 6699, bestpractice@advent-im.co.uk Date : 03.10.18   The UK’s leading independent, holistic security consultancy announced on Monday 1st October 2018 that they will be offering their services from the new iteration Digital Outcomes and Specialists Framework 3. This framework is for public bodies and agencies to […]
  • Posted by Smeeta Padhiar
  • On 3rd October 2018
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Bupa fined £175,000 for systemic data protection failures

Bupa Insurance Services Limited (Bupa) has been fined £175,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for failing to have effective security measures in place to protect customers’ personal information. Between 6 January and 11 March 2017, a Bupa employee was able to extract the personal information of 547,000 Bupa Global customers and offer it for […]
  • Posted by Smeeta Padhiar
  • On 2nd October 2018
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Fears that 65,000 Gloucestershire residents fell victim to huge data breach

More than 65,000 Forest of Dean residents’ personal data may have been hacked after a cyber-attack hit a credit rating agency the district council there sold information to. Names, addresses, telephone numbers and dates of birth of residents in the Forest could have been compromised in an attack on finance company Equifax which in total […]
  • Posted by Smeeta Padhiar
  • On 2nd October 2018
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Tesco Bank facing £30m fine from FCA over 2016 cyber attack

Tesco Bank could be fined as much as £30 million over its 2016 cyber attack that compromised the accounts of at least 40,000 of its seven million customers. The attack in November 2016 is one of the most serious ever on a UK retail bank, with money stolen from 20,000 accounts over one weekend – […]
  • Posted by Smeeta Padhiar
  • On 26th September 2018
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Equifax fined by ICO over data breach that hit Britons

Credit rating agency Equifax is to be fined £500,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) after it failed to protect the personal data of 15 million Britons. A 2017 cyber-attack exposed information belonging to 146 million people around the world, mostly in the US. Read full story. 
  • Posted by Smeeta Padhiar
  • On 20th September 2018
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Amazon investigates claims that employees sold confidential data

Amazon is investigating allegations that some of its employees have offered to leak confidential information and delete negative product reviews in exchange for money. According to a Wall Street Journal report on Sunday, Amazon (AMZN) staff members are peddling internal data and other advantages that independent merchants can use to try to get higher rankings […]
  • Posted by Smeeta Padhiar
  • On 18th September 2018
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