Risk and Resilience Blog
Manchester United Hit by Cyber Attack
Whilst the news that Manchester United had been hit by a “sophisticated operation by organized cyber criminals” was widely reported on Saturday, little detail has ...
Book Reviews – “The Rules of Contagion” by Adam Kucharski and “The Maths of Life and Death” by Kit Yates
Published in 2020 and 2019 respectively, these books are both very timely as we have all had to get to grips with epidemiology. Whilst there ...
On This Day in History – The Kings Cross Fire
On the evening of 18th of November 1987, 31 people died and many more were injured in a terrible fire in Kings Cross Underground station. ...
How Often do Banks Suffer IT Incidents?
We have often blogged about IT incidents within the banking sector and commented upon the frequency of these events; but how common are they? Since ...
Diageo Recalls Guinness Draught 0.0% Because of Possible Presence of Mould
There hasn’t been a high-profile food product recall in the UK since the fatal listeria contamination at Good Food Chain/North Country Cooked Meats over a ...
On This Day in History – The Reading Train Crash
On 6th November 2004 the 17:35 Paddington to Penzance train was derailed when it struck a parked car on a level crossing at Ufton Nervet, ...