In the week that the publication of “Lessons Learned Review of the WannaCry Ransomware Cyber Attack” concluded that the impact on the NHS of last May’s attack was preventable; there is some good news on the cyber security front…. The number of organisations achieving certification under the UK Government’s Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus […]
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Radware’s annual reports provide a very detailed analysis of the current state of the cyber security threat. Whilst the latest report, released earlier this month, confirms that cyber attacks are occurring with relentless frequency and continue to evolve and grow in sophistication; it also shows some subtle shifts in the targeting of these attacks. For
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) announced yesterday that it had fined Carphone Warehouse £400 000 over a cyber-attack in 2015. The company’s failure to secure the system allowed unauthorised access to the personal data of over three million customers and 1,000 employees, including: names, addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, marital status and payment card details.
There appears to have been a big rise in the number of organisations certifying to the Cyber Essentials standard over the last three months. Data from the four certifying bodies in August 2017 revealed that nearly 4600 organisations were certified at that stage, but this has now risen to over 5500; an increase of more
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At first glance the announcement of a data breach involving data from 57 million drivers and customers of Uber is a case of more of the same: there have been much bigger breaches over the last few years. However, the revelation that the company didn’t acknowledge the breach for a year, opting instead to pay
The BCI Supply Chain Resilience Report has become an invaluable source of information for both resilience and supply chain professionals over the last few years. The release of the 2017 report this week brings the picture right up to date. In many ways this year’s report confirms the patterns seen in previous years: 65% of
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We are now becoming so used to data breaches that only the most spectacular example receive much attention. Usually they are spectacular because of the sheer volume of data, such as the Yahoo! breach of 2013; but on this occasion the newsworthy feature of the attacks is the sensitivity of the data that was compromised.
The October 2015 data breach at TalkTalk, resulting in the theft of personal data of almost 157,000 customers and a record £400 000 fine, has been widely reported here and elsewhere. However, another serious breach has not been so widely reported. TalkTalk began investigating in September 2014, after receiving complaints from customer that they were
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The Hull-based telecoms firm, KCOM, has been fined £900k by Ofcom over a failure of their 999 call service back in December 2015. The 4-hour outage resulted in 74 emergency calls failing, so the fine equates to over £10 000 per call (or £225k per hour)! Although Ofcom accepted that the root cause of the
