Category: Advent IM Blog

• by Ellie Hurst
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The UK has done a good job over the years in the fight against cyber-crime even as there remains more to do, said the former director of MI5 in a speech today. Read more

• by Ellie Hurst
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Advent IM Security Consultant, Del Brazil discusses some of the questions raised by the legal action from Morrisons employees over a data breach that led to their private information being leaked… It has been reported in Computer Weekly that thousands of Morrisons staff are planning to sue the retailer over a data breach in which a disgruntled former […]

• by Ellie Hurst
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This week saw the news that the junior bureaucrat from the Australian Department of Defence, has been jailed for one year, following his guilty plea in the ACT Supreme Court to posting a secret Defence Intelligence Organisation, to an online forum. Julia McCarron gives her take on this quite staggering series of events. Not a ‘Gooday’ […]

• by Ellie Hurst
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From Dale Penn, Advent IM Security Consultant Safe Harbour was a process by which US companies could comply with the  EU Directive 95/46/EC on the protection of personal data when transferring data “across the pond” Intended for organizations within the European Union or United States which store customer data, the Safe Harbour Principles are designed […]

• by Ellie Hurst
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Julia McCarron reflects on the news that regulators are almost at the point of requiring major financial services companies to participate in a cyber security testing programme, according to the Bank of England. It was nice to see the Bank of England talking about cyber security recently, and the importance it sees in testing awareness and resilience […]

• by Ellie Hurst
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Julia McCarron, Advent IM Director, looks at the British Gas breach that saw customer details published online and the energy giant claiming they had not been breached and the details must have come from elsewhere… So let’s get this straight. The email addresses and passwords definitely belonged to British Gas customers? Tick. They definitely accessed British […]

• by Ellie Hurst
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Advent IM Director, Julia McCarron has turned her eye to the M&S security breach… Well as our Marcomms Manager, Ellie superbly put it, “This isn’t just poor security, this is M&S poor security”. The brand synonymous with quality has let the side down following what it claims was an internal system glitch that caused M&S online account […]

• by Ellie Hurst
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A nuclear power plant worker in Scotland has been escorted from  EDF’s West Kilbride premises and the police called, after allegedly viewing bomb-making websites whilst at work.  The full story is here. Some comment from Advent IM DIrector, Julia McCarron. Trying to find out how to build a bomb whilst working on-site at a nuclear […]

• by Ellie Hurst
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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 […]

• by Ellie Hurst
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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 […]