Cyber Security Roundup for June 2020

Cyber Security Roundup for June 2020

A roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, May 2020.EasyJet's disclosure of a "highly sophisticated cyber-attack", which occurred ...
As UK Data Breach Reports Drop, Britain’s Privacy Watchdog Reveals Surge in Other Cyber Incidents

As UK Data Breach Reports Drop, Britain’s Privacy Watchdog Reveals Surge in Other Cyber Incidents

The latest report from the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), reveals a steady drop in data security incidents between January and March 2020. When comparing the first quarter of 2020 to the ...
Interserve Hit by Data Breach; 100,000 Employee Records Stolen

Interserve Hit by Data Breach; 100,000 Employee Records Stolen

Hackers stole sensitive details on 100,000 people from an outsourcing company named Interserve, but the attackers are unknown and the company offered no additional information. News of the intrusion surfaced a couple ...
Cyber Security Roundup for March 2020

Cyber Security Roundup for March 2020

A roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, February 2020.Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council became the latest UK ...
The Billion Pound Manchester City Hack

The Billion Pound Manchester City Hack

The sport of football is a multi-billion-pound global industry, where the world's top-drawer football clubs push competitive advantages to the extreme, not just for the prestige of winning trophies, as success on ...
British retailer fined half a million pounds for poor cybersecurity hygiene

British retailer fined half a million pounds for poor cybersecurity hygiene

Companies that fail to protect themselves online no longer need to fear only the bad guys lurking in the hidden corners of the internet. Increasingly, they need to worry about the good ...
Network Security Observability & Visibility: Why they are not the same

Network Security Observability & Visibility: Why they are not the same

Guest article by Sean Everson, Chief Technology Officer at Certes Networks In today’s increasingly complex cyber landscape, it is now more important than ever for organisations to be able to analyse contextual ...

What’s all the talk about TalkTalk?

Four years after the news broke that the personal data of over 150,000 UK TalkTalk customers had been stolen, the cost of the breach, both financially and reputationally, is still being reported ...

Cyber Security Roundup for July 2019

July was a month of mega data privacy fines. The UK Information Commissioners Office (ICO) announced it intended to fine British Airways £183 million for last September's data breach, where half a ...
Data protection – more than just data security

Data protection – more than just data security

Data protection is a major concern for organisations large and small. Recent announcements by the UK data protection authority, the ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office), of significant penalties for British Airways (more than ...