Book Review: Crime Dot Com, From Viruses to Vote Rigging, How Hacking Went Global

Book Review: Crime Dot Com, From Viruses to Vote Rigging, How Hacking Went Global

I had the great delight of reading Geoff White’s new book, “Crime Dot Com: From Viruses to Vote Rigging, How Hacking Went Global”, I thoroughly recommend it. The book is superbly researched ...
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 ...

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 November 2018

One of the largest data breaches in history was announced by Marriott Hotels at the end of November. A hack was said to have compromised up to a mind-blowing "half a Billion" ...
Two Young Men Jailed for Involvement in TalkTalk Data Breach

Two Young Men Jailed for Involvement in TalkTalk Data Breach

Two young men received prison sentences for helping to perpetrate a data breach at the UK telecommunications provider TalkTalk. On 19 November, Judge Anuja Dhir QC at the Old Bailey sentenced Matthew ...
Two friends jailed for TalkTalk hack plot

Two friends jailed for TalkTalk hack plot

Two friends have been jailed over their role in the 2015 hack of British telecoms firm TalkTalk. Connor Allsopp, 21, and 23-year-old Matthew Hanley, both of Tamworth, Staffordshire, were jailed yesterday at ...

Cyber Security Roundup for March 2018

In the wake of the global political fallout over the Salisbury nerve agent attack, there are reports of a growing threat of Russian state or Russian state-affiliated hacking groups conducting cyber attack ...