Category: Industry News

News and information from the Advent IM team.

Cabinet Office fined £500,000 by ICO over New Year Honours data breach

Sir Elton John and cricketer Ben Stokes are among individuals affected by the breach The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued the Cabinet Office with a £500,000 fine over a data breach that disclosed the personal details of more than 1,000 people listed for 2020’s New Year Honours. The ICO said its investigation into […]

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Facial Recognition Firm Facing £17m ICO Data Handling Fine

The company has been ordered to stop data processing after the ICO warned of a substantial privacy fine for the mishandling of collected facial data in the UK. Australian Facial recognition company Clearview AI is facing a £17 million fine for its mishandling on user data in the UK. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) announced […]

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MI6 boss warns of China ‘debt traps and data traps’

MI6 chief Richard Moore has warned of China’s “debt traps and data traps” in his first live broadcast interview. Mr Moore – known as “C” – told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme these traps threatened to erode sovereignty and have prompted defensive measures. In a wide-ranging interview ahead of his first major public speech since […]

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Huge fines and a ban on default passwords in new UK law

The government has introduced new legislation to protect smart devices in people’s homes from being hacked. Recent research from consumer watchdog Which? suggested homes filled with smart devices could be exposed to more than 12,000 attacks in a single week. Default passwords for internet-connected devices will be banned, and firms which do not comply will […]

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GoDaddy Hacked, 1.2M Customers at Risk of Phishing Attack

Domain registrar GoDaddy has shared details of a serious security breach which saw the details of 1.2 million customers exposed. In a disclosure to the US Securities and Exchange Commission, GoDaddy’s Chief Information Security Officer, Demetrius Comes, shared details of the hack. Suspicious activity was discovered on Nov. 17 in the company’s Managed WordPress hosting […]

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Hackers targeted thousands of online retailers to steal credit card details

Over 4,000 online retailers have been warned that their websites had been hacked by cybercriminals trying to steal customers’ payment information and other personal information. In total, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has identified a total of 4,151 retailers that had been compromised by hackers attempting to exploit vulnerabilities on checkout pages to divert […]

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NCSC: Ransomware the Most Significant Cyber Threat Facing the UK

The National Cyber Security Centre says that ransomware is now potentially as harmful as state-sponsored espionage. According to the DCMS Cyber Security Breaches Survey published in March, 39% of all UK businesses (2.3m) reported a cyber breach or attack in 2020/21. The report revealed that the onslaught of ransomware attacks shows no sign in easing […]

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Six million Sky routers had serious security flaw

About six million Sky routers had a significant software bug that could have allowed hackers to take over home networks, a security company has revealed. The problem has been fixed – but researchers say it took Sky 18 months to address. The vulnerability could have affected anyone who had not changed the router’s default admin […]

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FBI Hacker Offers to Sell Data Allegedly Stolen in Robinhood Breach

The hacker who last week sent out thousands of fake emails from FBI systems is offering to sell data allegedly stolen in the recent breach at mobile stock trading platform Robinhood. Robinhood last week revealed that it had suffered a data breach in early November after someone used social engineering to trick an employee into […]

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UK government proposes new rules for digital supply chain security

Proposals could see IT service providers legally required to adhere to the NCSC’s Cyber Assessment Framework, among other things The UK government has unveiled plans to boost the cyber security of the country’s digital supply chains with a series of measures that could include mandating IT service providers to adhere to the National Cyber Security […]

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