Category: Industry News

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
• Advent IM Blog Industry News

More than a third (35%) of connected device owners in the UK do not take additional security measures to protect their smart home devices and rely solely on inbuilt security features. Only 37% of connected device owners deny permissions to apps on their devices, while just a third (33%) install cybersecurity software. An even lower […]

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
• Industry News

Many of us now refuse to answer telephone calls from an unknown number, for fear that it could be a scam. A recent report suggests that we are right to be cautious. In the 12 months to March 2021, phone call and text message fraud across England, Wales and Northern Ireland was up 83% from […]

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
• Industry News

A cyber crime ring composed of nearly two dozen fraudsters was taken down by Europol after it was discovered using fraudulent emails and websites to dupe companies in twenty countries out of approximately £850,000. Read via Teiss

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
• Industry News

Pearson, a London-based publishing and education giant that provides software to schools and universities has agreed to pay $1 million to settle charges that it misled investors about a 2018 data breach resulting in the theft of millions of student records. Read via Tech Crunch

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
• Industry News

T-Mobile has confirmed “unauthorized access” to its systems, days after a portion of customer data was listed for sale on a known cybercriminal forum. 100 million records on T-Mobile customers, which included customer account names, phone numbers, the IMEI numbers of phones on the account, and Social Security number and driver’s license information Read via Tech […]

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
• Industry News

Security researchers have discovered a 12-year-old router vulnerability that they’ve warned may affect millions of devices globally. The issue may affect millions of devices manufactured by 17 different vendors, used in at least 11 countries — including Australia, Germany, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, the US. Read via infosecurity magazine

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
• Industry News

Security researchers have discovered an online database completely unsecured and exposed to the public internet, containing the personal details of at least 63 million Americans. The database itself contained around 126 million records. Depending on the number of duplicates in there, the number of affected individuals could be anywhere between 63 million and 126 million […]

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
• Industry News

Six schools on the Isle of Wight and their umbrella organisation have been targeted by a ransomware attack, leaving teachers and pupils unable to access their online systems and causing disruption to the start of the new school year in September.   Read via ComputerWeekly

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
• Industry News

The National Lottery Community Fund has said that two missing unencrypted disks were the cause of the data breach that it warned charities about last month. The grant-maker had said that more than six years’ worth of contact and bank details had potentially been exposed to fraud. It said the breach involved data provided to […]

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
• Industry News

Gun owners in Northern Ireland have been urged to be “extra vigilant” over their home security after the PSNI confirmed that 803 customers in Northern Ireland have been affected by a major data breach from online trading website GunTrader UK. Read via 4NI