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If you can call more than 5 million breached records “low”, February figures are actually below average for cybersecurity incidents. There were 83 data breaches or cyber incidents in February, accounting for 5,127,241 breached records. As news broke of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, there was a flurry of related security incidents towards the end of the month. […]

Whenever you enter a new password on a website, it is likely that your browser prompts you to “save this password” for next time. There are of course some great advantages to this. You don’t have to remember them, it speeds up the process of your next login, and depending on which browser you are […]

2021 was typified by numerous Covid-related challenges, including of course the continued need to offer home- and hybrid-working, which in many cases has exacerbated the challenge of maintaining good cybersecurity. This has led to an extensive list of published cybersecurity breaches for 2021, which may indicate a massive uptick in cybersecurity incidents, or more likely, […]

In October 2021, there were 94 publicly disclosed cyber security incidents, accounting for 51,248,331 breached records. Most of these breached records have come from a single cyber-attack, where an attacker hacked into Argentina’s government ID database, with every citizen of the country thought to be affected: Argentina’s population data theft A hacker has breached the […]

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, for which we are proud ambassadors. As we all get stuck in to learning and sharing everything we need to know about Cyber Defences, our MD Claire has written an article over on LinkedIn, highlighting the importance of creating the right culture for security to thrive. “Shame is best friends […]

There has been a big jump in the number of breaches recorded in July compared with June, with 33,727,641 breaches recorded and 86 security incidents in July 2021. That makes the overall total of security incidents stand at 815 and the total number of breached records at 3,980,757,735. Oxford City Council Data Breach Oxford City […]

In the latest wave of challenges causing businesses to pivot, we have the ‘pingdemic’, with individuals being asked to self-isolate after contact with a positive COVID-19 case. True, the government is proposing a major overhaul to these rules on 16 August 2021, but the question is whether you will be changing your workplace rules too? […]

When checking for potential cyber threats and ransomware, many teams are gaining confidence that they’re avoiding the common pitfalls. Things like looking for spelling mistakes, checking the ‘sent from’ email address, hovering over links, and even just sense checking yourself that you know the sender, are all good steps; but what about emails threatening legal […]

March has been recorded as a month with lower-than-average records leaked per data breach, but that’s in no way reassuring. In fact, there was an exceptionally high number of breaches – 151 – during the month, and the reason that there were lower data record numbers recorded was in fact because of a surprisingly high […]

In one of the worst months on record for data breaches, more than 2.3 billion records were recorded as breached in February 2021, as successful ransomware attacks accelerated. Here’s what you need to know in our February cybersecurity recap: Hacker attempts to poison water supply… At the beginning of February, a hacker gained control of […]

As we finally receive news of the four-stage exit from lockdown, attentions in the workplace naturally turn to the ‘future’ of work. Will employees be desperate for a return to the office and the much-missed human collaboration, or have they had a taste of the ‘good life’ and hope to continue working the majority of […]