News and information from the Advent IM team.
Recent Retail IT Outages or The Importance of Being Resilient
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
A post from our MD, Mike Gillespie, on the recent outage impacts and lessons in resilience IT-based outages affecting McDonald’s, Sainsbury’s and Tesco were widely reported last weekend (15th and 16th March 2024), with many confused and angry customers taking to social media to warn others or make contact with the brands, seeking more information. […]
Read MoreBritish Library shares lessons from cyber attack
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
The British Library has published a report on what it has learned from the cyber incident that paralysed its IT systems in October of last year. Read Here.
Read MoreCapita shares crater 22 per cent as outsourcing giant swings to £107m loss
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
Capita’s share price closed 22 per cent lower on Wednesday after the outsourcing giant reported a huge loss and announced that it would be ramping up its cost-cutting programme. The group, which runs key local government, military and NHS services, this morning posted a pretax loss of £106.6m for 2023, compared with a £51.4m profit […]
Read MoreLaw firm reports data breach affecting more than 325,000 people
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
Houser LLP, a U.S. law firm that specializes in serving high-profile financial institutions, said a system breach discovered in May 2023 exposed the personal data — possibly including sensitive information such as credit card numbers — of more than 325,000 people. Read Here.
Read MoreA Cyberattack on a UnitedHealth Unit Disrupts Prescription Drug Orders
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
For a week, people have been waylaid at pharmacies after a unit of the nation’s largest insurer was shut down by a possible ransomware assault. Read Here.
Read MoreCyber criminals hack Internet users with advertising tools – HP
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
HP Wolf Security’s Cyber Division report reveals a new method that involves using online advertising tools to analyse and optimize cyber attacks. Read Here.
Read MoreICO Bans Serco Leisure’s Use of Facial Recognition for Employee Attendance
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
Serco Leisure has been ordered to stop using facial recognition technology (FRT) and fingerprint scanning to monitor employee attendance by the UK’s data protection enforcement authority. Read here for the full article. Be sure to check out our video on ‘Employee monitoring’, as Mike Gillespie FCIIS MSyI CIRM covered monitoring within businesses and why they do it. […]
Read MoreLockbit: UK leads disruption of major cyber-criminal gang
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
The UK has led an operation to disrupt what is thought to be the world’s largest criminal ransomware group. Read via BBC News.
Read MoreBLOG: Policing and The Need for Information Management
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- General
I write this as someone with first-hand experience in information security and its management and also experience in Policing, having served part of my career as a frontline Police Constable; this combination allows me to clearly observe the lack of information management within policing. In 2007, the movie Hot Fuzz starring Simon Pegg and Nick […]
Read MoreValentine’s Day: Romance Scams on the Rise!
- by Anthony Orjally
- Advent IM Blog
Dating apps are increasing in popularity year by year, which means that there’s more people available for scammers to target. But first and foremost, what is a romance scam? It is a type of scam that involves a fraudster building a (false) personal relationship with their victim, only to ask them for money – to […]
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