The Chairman and CEO of Equifax yesterday became the latest executive to “retire” in the wake of the enormous data breach announced on 7th September; the CIO and CSO having already “retired” two weeks ago. The previous “retirements” coincide with the bottoming out of a steep fall in share price (roughly 33% or $5b) following […]
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
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) released its 2016/17 annual report on 13th July, which showed another steep rise in the number of data protection incidents. There were a total of 2565 self-reported data protection incidents in 2016/17, an increase of over 30% from the previous year. Once again the top sectors, by number of incidents,
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Just over 1 month on from the WannaCry attack, there have been reports about a significant ransomware attack on University College London. The attacks impacted shared drives, with detailed instructions given out on the university website. By 2.30pm on 16th June, users were told that the ‘first phase of share folders will come back online this
Well, another Business Continuity Awareness Week comes to an end. This year’s theme has been Cyber Resilience and, given the world-wide problems with WannaCry, it has certainly been a topical theme! Today’s story looks more towards business continuity in a more traditional setting, and considers the implications that need to be considered for large-scale changes
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A quick summary of the cyber news today, and it is clear that the same key lessons are emerging as have already been noted this week. Indian restaurant guide, Zomato, is reporting the theft of data of some 17 million users. From the phrasing in their blog, it appears that they have just found the breach,
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There has understandably been much focus, over the last few days, on information security in the NHS. Whilst there is still no suggestion that any patient data was breached in the recent ransomware incident, breaches of patient data remain a global problem within the healthcare sector: over 30 million patient records were breached in the
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Hot on the heels of the massive ransomware attack on 12 May 2017, reports are emerging of ransomware attack on Disney. Unlike the Wannacry attack, which has impacted over 200,000 computers in 150 countries, the Disney attack has been deliberately targeted, with hackers threatening to release segments of the new Pirates of the Caribbean film
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What a start to Business Continuity Awareness Week! The theme for this year is Cyber Resilience’, and the week has started with the investigations and continued fall-out from what has possibly been the world’s largest cyber security event which occurred on Friday afternoon. A ransomware attack has spread throughout 150 countries, infecting more than 200,000
