Following the recent high profile security incidents we sat down with Adam Strange, a Data Classification Specialist from HelpSystems and asked for his opinions on third party/supply chain risks and means of mitigating them. Please see his comments below.
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Almost six in 10 security leaders admit they find it difficult to action protective insights for their enterprise off the back of information provided by their security vendors. A similar percentage also believe the information they are given isn’t relevant to their organisation. These are just two concerning statistics found via Kaspersky research into the communications gap between vendors and enterprises. A resultant negative cycle of unprotected infrastructure on one side, and a lack of progressive insight being attained on the other, highlights the need for a change of approach for both. More than eight in 10 cybersecurity decision-makers –…
Over half (58%) of UK businesses have cited security concerns as the biggest barrier to public cloud adoption, according to a new study from Centrify. The survey of 200 business decision-makers in large and medium-sized enterprises in the UK also found that over a third (35%) who have adopted cloud is less than 80% confident it is completely secure.
Following news last week that Intel has suffered a breach in which hackers obtained financially sensitive information that forced the company to release earnings early, please find comment below from cybersecurity experts.
In relation to Data Privacy Protection Day next Thursday, cybersecurity experts have provided the below commentary around how businesses can improve their data privacy and remove sensitive data blind spots.
A hacker has leaked the details of millions of users registered on Teespring, a web portal that lets users create and sell custom-printed apparel. The user data was leaked last Sunday on a public forum dedicated to cybercrime and the sale of stolen databases. The Teespring data was made available as a 7zip archive that includes two SQL files. The first file contains a list of more than 8.2 million Teespring users’ email addresses The second file includes account details for more than 4.6 million usersDetails included in this second SQL file a hashed version of the email address, usernames, real…
Cyber criminals who stole thousands of digital files belonging to environmental regulator Sepa have published them on the internet, reported by BBC. The public body had about 1.2GB of data stolen from its digital systems on Christmas Eve. Sepa rejected a ransom demand for the attack, which has been claimed by the international Conti ransomware group. Contracts, strategy documents and databases are among the 4,000 files released.
UK police lost over 400,000 police files due to a “human error” whereby defective code was introduced during routine maintenance. The mistake had enormous consequences, with Government ministers now admitting that Police criminal investigations may have been compromised due to the error. The mistake points to the wider problem of the security skills gaps amongst developers, with many not taught to code securely from the outset, nor given the time to evolve their security offerings themselves.
Check Point has published Cyber Criminals Leave Stolen Phishing Credentials in Plain Sight, revealing that a phishing campaign that has run for more than a year and a half inadvertently exposed its payload of stolen credentials. Cybersecurity experts offer perspective.
The laptops given out in England to support vulnerable children home-schooling during lockdown contain malware, as covered by the BBC.