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, […]
After a bumper 2021, filled with data breaches, ransomware, cybersecurity flaws, and massive incidents, but also leaps forward in cybersecurity training, defences, and awareness, we could only hope that 2022 would offer a promising start. Unfortunately, breach trends continue, led by dedicated hacking attacks, rife ransomware, and businesses and individuals who are still neglecting even […]
December saw 74 publicly known security incidents, which is slightly less than the previous month. These December incidents accounted for 219,310,808 breached records. Another Cyber Attack on T-Mobile After suffering a cyber-attack in August 2021, T-Mobile has been rocked by another big data breach in December. This attack saw customers accounts being accessed, according […]
On 9 December, a new zero-day vulnerability was identified in Java, affecting a significant number of major operating systems including UniFi, Apple, Tesla, Twitter, and Minecraft among others. On the scale of vulnerability severity, this scores 10 out of 10, i.e., the worst vulnerability you can get. What is a zero-day vulnerability? In essence, a […]
There were 81 publicly disclosed cyber security incidents in November 2021 totalling 223,615,390 breached records. With only one month to go in the year the annual running total of compromised records is just shy of 5 billion. Labour Party hit by Cyber Attack Members of the Labour Party were involved in a cyber attack on […]
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 […]
As a business committed to our own cybersecurity and that of our clients, we take pride in external certifications that independently audit and validate our exacting standards. As well as being Cyber Essentials certified, we were one of the first companies in the country to gain the ISO27001:2013 certification after its 2013 overhaul. The ISO27001 […]
In September 2021, there have been very few security incidents in the UK compared to normal. What’s more, despite 97 security incidents, comprising 91,127,815 million breached records, there is something unusual in that a single incident accounted for most of those records – 61 million – which were exposed via an unsecured database: Fitness Tracker […]
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 […]