Articles and Comments By Matt Aldridge
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Major Data Breach In The UK: Electoral Commission Systems Compromised Affecting Over 40 Million Voters
August 09 , 2023 by Matt Aldridge
“The attack on the Electoral Commission is concerning – one concern here is that the stolen data...
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Tequivity Cloud Server Compromise Leads to Uber Breached, Experts Reacted
December 13 , 2022 by Matt Aldridge
“All organisations should be working hard to ensure that sensitive customer and business data rema...
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The UK's Biggest Anti-fraud Operation: 70,000 Victims To Receive Text Messages
November 24 , 2022 by Matt Aldridge
Organised cybercrime is constantly adapting to shifts in the news agenda and it’s no surprise that...
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Thousands Of Customers Affected In Revolut Data Breach
September 21 , 2022 by Matt Aldridge
To minimise the risk of personal data breaches happening in this digital world, all organisations mu...
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Yodel Cyber Incident - Experts Discussion
June 25 , 2022 by Matt Aldridge
The reported cyber incident at Yodel highlights how huge an impact a cyber-attack can have on a serv...
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Yodel Cyber Incident - Experts Discussion
June 23 , 2022 by Matt Aldridge
The reported cyber incident at Yodel highlights how huge an impact a cyber-attack can have on a serv...
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Cornwall Council Data Breach
May 16 , 2022 by Matt Aldridge
Once data is exposed, it can fuel future cyber-attacks if it ends up in the wrong hands. The fact th...
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German Petrol Company Oiltanking Suffers Cyberattack
February 03 , 2022 by Matt Aldridge
The oil and gas industry is a high-value and lucrative industry and so naturally one that cybercrimi...
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Red Cross Hack Leaks Data Of 515,000 Vulnerable People
January 24 , 2022 by Matt Aldridge
It’s clear that the public sector is currently a key target for cybercriminals amid the pandemic,...
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Vaccine Research Among Cyber Attack Targets
November 18 , 2021 by Matt Aldridge
Cyber-attacks specifically on healthcare research institutions, are becoming increasingly targeted,...
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Graff Cyber Attack Response - How To Mitigate The Damages Of Ransomware Attacks
November 02 , 2021 by Matt Aldridge
When high-end businesses are attacked and data belonging to the rich and powerful is released, it se...
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Apple Issues Urgent iPhone Software Update To Address Critical Spyware Vulnerability
September 15 , 2021 by Matt Aldridge
Although interesting, this vulnerability and resultant patch are not greatly surprising. All softwar...
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JBS Pays $11 Million Dollars in Cyber Ransom
June 11 , 2021 by Matt Aldridge
Although JBS claims that there is no evidence that any customer, supplier or employee data has been...
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Expert Reaction On Research That 250% Jump In Phishing Sites
January 26 , 2021 by Matt Aldridge
Remember that your online gaming accounts are a hot target for hackers for several reasons. Cybercri...
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Experts Comments On Kylie's Cosmetics Security Incident
October 01 , 2020 by Matt Aldridge
As Shopify has now learned the hard way, insider threats are real, and it is crucial that all organi...
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NCSC warns of ransomware attacks against UK universities - experts reaction
September 17 , 2020 by Matt Aldridge
It’s unsurprising that education institutions continue to be targets for cybercriminals, especiall...
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Hacking of Indian PM Narendra Modi's Twitter account -- Expert Insight
September 04 , 2020 by Matt Aldridge
With the increased use of social tools for business communications, social media security is more im...
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Hacking of Indian PM Narendra Modi's Twitter account -- Expert Insight
September 04 , 2020 by Matt Aldridge
With the increased use of social tools for business communications, social media security is more im...
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Expert Insight On New Zealand's Stock Exchange Hit By Second Cyber Attack
August 27 , 2020 by Matt Aldridge
This latest attack again highlights the risks posed by threat actors, who can use cyberattacks to tr...
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Expert Insight On New Zealand's Stock Exchange Hit By Second Cyber Attack
August 27 , 2020 by Matt Aldridge
This latest attack again highlights the risks posed by threat actors, who can use cyberattacks to tr...
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Cyber Expert On Amazon Alexa Security Flaw
August 17 , 2020 by Matt Aldridge
Security in IoT devices such as the Amazon Echo and associated Alexa voice assistant service is an i...
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Experts Insight On Premier League Club Almost Loses £1m to Hackers
July 24 , 2020 by Matt Aldridge
This hack highlights how cybercriminals are increasingly targeting high profile industries with emai...
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Experts Reaction On Australia Targeted By 'Sophisticated' Cyber Attack - By 'State-based' Actor
June 22 , 2020 by Matt Aldridge
The practice of stealing intellectual property in this way has been going on for a very long time. A...
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UK airline easyJet data breach impacts 9M customers - expert commentary
May 20 , 2020 by Matt Aldridge
This is a difficult time for airlines and a data breach isn’t going to help with regaining custome...
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Microsoft Teams Has Fixed A Funny Gifs Cyber-attack Flaw- Experts Commentary
April 27 , 2020 by Matt Aldridge
How can organisations best deal with sort of threat?
Mass remote working presents a whole new worl...
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Comment: New Orleans Government Shut Down By Massive Cyber Attack
December 17 , 2019 by Matt Aldridge
New Orleans is probably better prepared for manual operations than many other cities due to its expe...
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