Tag: INFOSECURITYMAG
News and information from the Advent IM team.
Campus Still Closed as Portsmouth University Reels from Suspected Ransomware
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
Key IT systems at the University of Portsmouth continue to remain offline this week after a supposed ransomware attack, delaying the start of the new term. A notice on the university’s homepage doesn’t explicitly name ransomware as the cause of the “cyber incident,” but the “ongoing technical disruption” it describes is a tell-tale sign of such attacks. […]
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Insider Cloud Data Theft Plagues Healthcare Sector
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
Over a third (35%) of global healthcare organizations suffered cloud data theft by malicious insiders last year, according to data from Netwrix. Read via InfoSecurityMag.
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Financial Regulator Hit by 240,000 Malicious Emails in Q4 2020
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
The UK’s financial regulator was bombarded with nearly a quarter of a million malicious emails in the final quarter of 2020, FOI data has revealed, highlighting the continuous pressure high-profile organizations are under to protect their assets. Read via InfoSecurityMag.
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London Orgs: Increased Risk Due to Remote Working to Persist for 12-18 months
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
Three in five (60%) organizations in London and the South East of England have seen an increased level of risk to their IT infrastructure due to remote working, with 88% expecting this risk to persist for the next 12-18 months. Read via InfoSecurityMag.
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US Payroll Agency Targeted in Separate SolarWinds Attack – Report
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
Suspected Chinese state-backed threat actors exploited a SolarWinds Orion bug to compromise a US government payroll agency, a new report has claimed. Read via InfoSecurityMag.
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