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News and information from the Advent IM team.
UK universities each suffering a week’s downtime a year, FoIs reveal
- by Ellie Hurst
- Industry News
British universities are experiencing an average of nearly a week’s unplanned network downtime a year, as a result of cyber attacks and IT failures, new research has revealed. Read the story by Oscar Williams
Read MoreCoronavirus: Serco apologises for sharing contact tracers’ email addresses
- by Ellie Hurst
- Industry News
Outsourcing firm Serco has apologised after accidentally sharing the email addresses of almost 300 contact tracers. Read story via BBC
Read MoreEasyJet admits nine million customers hacked
- by Ellie Hurst
- Industry News
EasyJet has admitted that a “highly sophisticated cyber-attack” has affected approximately nine million customers. Read via BBC
Read MoreAndroid Hit By ‘Incredibly Sophisticated’ Malware
- by Ellie Hurst
- Industry News
Malware found on Google Play looks innocent at first, then downloads additional capabilities that allow it to take over targeted devices. Read the story from Matthew Broersma at Silicon.
Read MoreHackers target supercomputers researching Covid-19 in Switzerland, Germany, UK
- by Ellie Hurst
- Industry News
Agencies investigating the hacking say potential theft of information could jeopardise the delivery of secure, effective, and efficient treatment options. Read story by William Turton in The Print
Read MoreInterserve Hit by Data Breach; 100,000 Employee Records Stolen
- by Ellie Hurst
- Industry News
Hackers stole sensitive details on 100,000 people from an outsourcing company named Interserve, but the attackers are unknown and the company offered no additional information. Read story by Silviu Stahie at Security boulevard
Read MoreUK Power Grid company Elexon targeted by hackers
- by Ellie Hurst
- Industry News
British power grid company Elexon has announced that it recently suffered a cyberattack targeting its internal IT systems that locked its employees out of internal email accounts and prevented them from using laptops remotely. Read story by JayJay at Teiss
Read MoreAlmost half of firms have been reported to the ICO for a potential data breach
- by Ellie Hurst
- Industry News
Apricorn, the leading manufacturer of software-free, 256-bit AES XTS hardware-encrypted USB drives today announced findings of its annual survey into the attitudes towards data breaches and the implementation of encryption technology within organisations. Read the story by Peter Smyth in London Loves Business
Read More40% of IT security budgets spent on ‘compliance burden’ as 43% of orgs reported to ICO over GDPR
- by Ellie Hurst
- Industry News
43% or organisations have been reported to the ICO, and this increased IT compliance burden is soaking up IT security budgets with the focus on 3rd party data rather than the company’s own assets. Read story by Andrew McCorkell in SCMagazine
Read MoreData of 1,200 EU Parliament officials exposed on web
- by Ellie Hurst
- Industry News
Confidential information and encrypted passwords got into open access. read full story via 112
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