Many of us woke up in the UK this morning to the story that, unbelievably, 150 000 records had been erroneously deleted from the Police National Computer. The data loss, which occurred during a regular weekly purge of data, has been attributed to a coding error which has now been rectified. Reassuring as this may […]
At around 1130 GMT yesterday, users around the world started experiencing difficulties using Google services such as YouTube and Gmail. Despite this, Google’s status dashboard continued to indicate that everything was working fine for some time. Meanwhile, Google’s search engine appears to have continued to work normally. The problem was quickly traced to an outage
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 emerged since. In particular, there has been no update to the club’s original statement that “We are not currently aware of any breach of personal data associated with our fans
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 April 2018, UK banks have had to report “Operational and Security Incidents” affecting personal and business current accounts to the FCA if they reach any of the following thresholds: >
Following hot on the heels of the announcement of a £20m fine for BA, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) issued a final penalty of £18.4m on Marriott International last Friday. Once again, this has been a long-running saga including, as with BA, the proposal last year of a much larger fine of £99m. It also brings
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The long-running saga of the BA data breach reached its conclusion (probably) last week with the announcement by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) of a £20m fine. Initial comments focused on the huge reduction from the £183m fine that the ICO initially proposed last year; but this is still a significant fine, both in total
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Twitter experienced a major outage last night, with tens of thousands of users around the world unable to use the platform for over an hour. The issue appears to have been resolved now and Twitter have stressed that there is no evidence of a security breach; attributing the outage to an “inadvertent change” to their
According to the latest figures from the International Standards Organisation (ISO), covering the period up to the end of 2019, there have been significant increases in the number of certifications to ISO 22301 and ISO 27001 globally: Unfortunately no direct comparison is possible with earlier years as the basis of the survey was changed in
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The National Cyber Security Centre has issued a specific alert to higher education institutions after a recent spike in attacks. In particular, both Northumbria and Newcastle Universities have come under attack in the last few weeks. These attacks come at the most critical time in the academic year, as universities recruit new students and prepare
