Details are currently very limited, but it is clear that the delivery service Yodel is dealing with a serious cyber incident. It appears that disruption began some time over the weekend, with delays to deliveries and loss of parcel tracking for customers. Commentators believe that this is a ransomware attack, but this has not been […]
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The overriding message from this year’s Cyber Breaches Survey is that little has changed. The headline figure of organisations experiencing a cyber breach or attack remains exactly the same as last year at 39%. As normal, phishing attacks remain the most prevalent for of attack (83%). Digging down into a bit more detail there is
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There has been extensive media coverage of chaotic scenes at Manchester Airport over recent days. Manchester Airport is certainly not unique within the aviation sector in encountering difficulties as the volume of passengers returns to normal (Easyjet and British Airways are also in the headlines), and I am not qualified to comment on what they
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March is turning into a big month for anniversaries. We have already blogged about that Salisbury nerve agent poisonings and the Fukushima nuclear disaster and, if we had had time, we could also have recalled the Herald of Free Enterprise (6th March 1987). However, today is the big one, the anniversary of the UK’s first
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On 11th March 2011, a tsunami off the coast of Japan triggered one of the worst nuclear accidents in history. At the time we wrote the following piece on our blog: “It is reported that the current perilous situation at the Fukushima nuclear plant is the result of the failure of backup generators to supply
As we watch in horror at the deteriorating situation in Ukraine, it is perhaps timely to recall Russian aggression here in the UK four years ago. On 4th March 2018 Sergei and Yulia Skripal became very seriously ill after being poisoned with the nerve agent Novichok. One of the Police officers who attended the incident
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February saw a remarkably high number of food product recalls in the UK: according to the Food Standards Agency’s website, there were 11 recalls. To put this in context, we have seen around 60 recalls per year for the last few years, so you would only expect to see this number in a month once
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