Category: Advent IM Blog

News and information from the Advent IM team.

#CyberSecurityMonth and it’s the Top 10 WORST passwords!

Is your password still ‘12345’ or ‘password’ ? It’s time for change… Almost all of the current Top 10 WORST passwords have been in the Top 20 for the last 5 years. The threat will continue to increase as cyber criminals become smarter and more advanced as the years pass. With the increase number and […]

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Critical National Infrastructure and Supply Chain Threat

When we talk about Critical National Infrastructure (CNI), we are discussing a hugely mixed bag of organisations; utilities, education, banking, health etc. Some are in private or partially in private hands, others are non-UK owned (and also in private hands) and they have a variety of security challenges but one thing connects them, quite apart […]

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Ransomware marches on..

The scourge of business, public sector and individuals, ransomware, shows no signs of abating and my heart sinks every time I see a headline where a vulnerability in an organsiation is exploited by this cynical malware. Most recently, students at a school in Plymouth, lost GCSE and and A level coursework after their school was […]

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Advent IM talking cyber crime with West Midlands Police Cyber ROCU

Cybercrime and the Police part 1

Part one of a series of podcasts on policing challenges, innovations and responses to cybercrime, with the help of the Cyber Regional Organised Crime Unit (ROCU) for West Midlands Police. Part one features Patrick McBrearty from this unit in conversation with Mike Gillespie about his role and his experience, as well as an explanation of […]

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Advent IM information secueity consultancy on the road at security conferences in 2019

Advent IM On Tour 2019

Although we are at conferences throughout the year, we thought we would do a little snapshot of where we have been so far this year. You can see it on our YouTube channel https://youtu.be/J627Yybgiuw   Music courtesy of www.templateswise.com

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Advent IM talk about Facebook fine and privacy in the face of social media abuse

The Fallout from Facebook – Mike Gillespie posts

From Advent IM MD, Mike Gillespie This week, following an extensive investigation into charges that Facebook Inc violated a 2012 FTC order by deceiving users about their ability to control the privacy of their personal information, the Federal Trade Commission handed down a $5bn penalty to Facebook.  This is by far the biggest penalty ever […]

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A look at child privacy from Michelle Horton

Thank you to Advent IM Security Consultant, Michelle Horton for this post. A recent headline in the news has caught my attention, “Amazon may be recording kids without consent”. Chapters 3 and 8 of GDPR explain that children have the same rights as adults over personal data and may exercise their rights on their own […]

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