Cyber Security Roundup for May 2020

A roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, April 2020.
As well reported, UK foreign exchange firm Travelex business operations were brought to a sta… Continue reading Cyber Security Roundup for May 2020

Cyber Security Roundup for April 2020

A roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, March 2020.
The UK went into lockdown in March due to the coronavirus pandemic, these are unprecedented a… Continue reading Cyber Security Roundup for April 2020

Cyber Security Roundup for March 2020

A roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, February 2020.
Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council became the latest UK organisation to become the victi… Continue reading Cyber Security Roundup for March 2020

Cyber Security Roundup for February 2020

A roundup of UK focused cyber and information security news stories, blog posts, reports and threat intelligence from the previous calendar month, January 2020.After years of dither and delay the UK government finally nailed its colours to the mast, no… Continue reading Cyber Security Roundup for February 2020

Cyber Security Roundup for January 2020

A roundup of UK focused cyber and information security news stories, blog posts, reports and threat intelligence from the previous calendar month, December 2019.
Happy New Year!  The final month of the decade was a pretty quiet one as major securi… Continue reading Cyber Security Roundup for January 2020

Cyber Security Roundup for November 2019

In recent years political motivated cyber-attacks during elections has become an expected norm, so it was no real surprise when the Labour Party reported it was hit with two DDoS cyber-attacks in the run up to the UK general election, which was we… Continue reading Cyber Security Roundup for November 2019

Cyber Security Roundup for September 2019

Anyone over the age of 40 in the UK will remember patiently browsing for holidays bargains on their TV via Teletext. While the TV version of Teletext Holidays died out years ago due to the creation of the world-wide-web, Teletext Holidays, a tradi… Continue reading Cyber Security Roundup for September 2019

Cyber Security Roundup for August 2019

Twitter boss, Jack Doresy, had his Twitter account was hacked at the end of August, with hackers using his account to send a stream of offensive messages to his 4.2 million followers. It appears Jack was using his mobile phone to provide multi-factor a… Continue reading Cyber Security Roundup for August 2019

Cyber Security Roundup for July 2019

July was a month of mega data privacy fines. The UK Information Commissioners Office (ICO) announced it intended to fine British Airways £183 million for last September’s data breach, where half a million BA customer personal records were compromi… Continue reading Cyber Security Roundup for July 2019

Cyber Security Roundup for June 2019

Keep Patching!June 2019 was another very busy month for security update releases. Microsoft released updates to patch 22 critical rated vulnerabilities, Intel released 11 fixes, and there were also several critical security updates for Apple Airport, A… Continue reading Cyber Security Roundup for June 2019