Category: Industry News
News and information from the Advent IM team.
Leicester City Council acknowledges cyber theft of data
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
Leicester City Council has acknowledged that some data on its IT systems was stolen in a cyber attack early last month. Read Here.
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British 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.
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Capita 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.
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A 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.
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Cyber 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.
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ICO 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. […]
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Lockbit: 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.
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Southern Water confirms cyber attack after Black Basta claims
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
Southern Water, which supplies millions of customers in southeast England, has confirmed it has fallen victim to a cyber attack, although its services appear to be running normally. Read via ComputerWeekly.
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Henry Schein says 29K people affected in September cyber incident
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
The ransomware group AlphV/BlackCat has claimed responsibility for the data breach and a second incident involving the company. Read Here.
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