Category: Industry News
News and information from the Advent IM team.
Cyber Insecurity: Report Finds Majority of Enterprises Expect an Imminent Cyber Attack
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
IDC surveyed more than 500 security and IT operations leaders worldwide to get a current view of how organizations are perceiving modern security threats and approaching cyber resilience. Sixty-one percent of respondents believe that data loss within the next 12 months is “likely” to “highly likely” to occur due to increasingly sophisticated attacks. Read […]
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UK at risk of massive security breach from national IT meltdown
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
The government is warned of a ‘major’ cyberattack by Russian and Chinese hackers if they keep ignoring warnings to fix HMRC’s crumbling computer system. Read via The Independent.
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McLaren ransomware attack may have leaked patient data to dark web
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
McLaren Health Care acknowledged this week that the ransomware attack that took down the computer network at its 14 Michigan hospitals in late August and early September also could have leaked some patient data onto the dark web. Read via Detroit Free Pass.
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Cyberattack Hits Estes Express Lines’ IT Systems
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
Estes Express Lines on Oct. 3 confirmed that its IT systems were the target of an ongoing cyberattack, but said its trucks were still moving freight. Read via Transport Topics.
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ICO tells public authorities to stop using spreadsheets in FOI
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
One too many accidental data breaches from use of spreadsheets in Freedom of Information (FoI) responses mean it’s time for the public sector to use alternative approaches. Read via UK Authority.
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Ukraine attacks Russian Black Sea navy HQ in Crimea
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
At least one Ukrainian missile struck the headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea navy in the Crimean port of Sevastopol on Friday, and a major cyberattack interrupted internet services on the peninsula, Russian-installed officials said. Read via Reuters.
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Cybercriminals Using PowerShell to Steal NTLMv2 Hashes from Compromised Windows
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
A new cyber attack campaign is leveraging the PowerShell script associated with a legitimate red teaming tool to plunder NTLMv2 hashes from compromised Windows systems primarily located in Australia, Poland, and Belgium. Read via The Hacker News.
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Maidstone: Secondary school hit by cyber attack
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
A secondary school in Kent has been hit by a criminal cyber attack, with pupil and parental data encrypted. Read via BBC News.
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Government denies U-turn on encrypted messaging row
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
The government has denied it is changing plans to force messaging apps to access users’ private messages if requested by the regulator Ofcom. Read via BBC Technology.
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Russian cyber-attacks ‘relentless’ as threat of WW3 grows, expert warns
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
Cyberattacks by the UK’s enemies are becoming “relentless” as we enter a “new era” of global conflict, an expert has warned. An attack on security firm Zaun, which holds information on militarily sensitive sites, has been described as ‘serious and of huge concern’. Read via The Independent.
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