Articles and Comments By Steven Hope
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UK Banks Using Poor Authentication And Web Security
January 14 , 2022 by Steven Hope
Many UK banks adopted TEXT/SMS based One-Time-Codes as a way to comply with the EU Payments Services...
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Panasonic Becomes Latest Victim Of Data Breach – Security Expert Comment
November 30 , 2021 by Steven Hope
You can’t help but think how the attackers accessed the network and managed to lurk on the systems...
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Robinhood Data Breach - Expert Comments
November 10 , 2021 by Steven Hope
While most of the data extracted for the majority involved isn’t extremely sensitive or confidenti...
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University Of Sunderland Hit With Major Cyber Attack
October 14 , 2021 by Steven Hope
Ever since the shift to remote learning, the education sector has been even more vulnerable to attac...
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Expert Reacted On Hackers Steal Funds Of 6,000 Coinbase Customers
October 04 , 2021 by Steven Hope
Coinbase have offered their own MFA for some time but many users choose not to set it up. Common rea...
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U.S. State Department Reportedly Hit By Cyber Attack
August 23 , 2021 by Steven Hope
As we always say: it’s a question of “when”, not “if” you will be a target. The U.S. State...
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Accenture Ransomware Attack - Experts Comments
August 12 , 2021 by Steven Hope
While the technical details of the Accenture attack are still unknown it does emphasise that anybody...
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Convincing New EE Scam Stealing Login Credentials And Banking Details
August 10 , 2021 by Steven Hope
This is a classic phishing attack which has matured to look very legitimate. The days of easy to spo...
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Hackers Compromised Chipotle And Sent Phishing Emails
August 02 , 2021 by Steven Hope
Contrasted to the common misconception, Article 83 of GDPR is very specific about its penalties: sec...
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Experts Insight On Iranian Hackers Posed As British-based Academic
July 13 , 2021 by Steven Hope
This sort of attack is, in truth nothing, new. It is simply a well-orchestrated phishing attack des...
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Cyber Security Experts Analysis Of REvil Ransomware: Lethal Mix With Powerful Results
July 06 , 2021 by Steven Hope
Ransomware is all the rage at the moment, and because it is so profitable it isn\'t going away any t...
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Expert Commentary: Over a Billion Records Belonging to CVS Health Exposed Online
June 18 , 2021 by Steven Hope
While this is not a classic “breach”, it is another example of a data leak. This time it was cau...
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Experts React: RockYou2021, Largest Password Leak
June 10 , 2021 by Steven Hope
While this breach is being coined the biggest password breach ever released, some important facts ar...
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Security Expert Re: FUJIFILM Ransomware Attack
June 07 , 2021 by Steven Hope
While the details on this incident are scarce at the moment clearly something severe is going on if...
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Klarna Privacy Incident Was 'Self-Inflicted Bug', Experts Weigh In
May 31 , 2021 by Steven Hope
This incident is more of a leak than a breach as Klarna weren’t targeted in this instance, it was...
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4.5 Million Passengers' Data Stolen In Air India Cyber Attack
May 25 , 2021 by Steven Hope
Air India have said that no “passwords data was affected” (http://www.airindia.in/images/pdf/Dat...
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4.5 Million Passengers' Data Stolen In Air India Cyber Attack
May 25 , 2021 by Steven Hope
Air India have said that no “passwords data was affected” (http://www.airindia.in/images/pdf/Dat...
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