Collaborate Disseminate
May 2019 was the busiest month of the year for critical security vulnerabilities and patch announcements. The standout was a Microsoft critical security update for Windows, rated with a CVSS score of 9.8 of 10. This vulnerability fixes CVE-20… Continue reading Cyber Security Roundup for May 2019
The UK government controversially gave a green light to Huawei get involved with the building of the UK’s 5G networks, although the Chinese tech giant role will be limited to non-sensitive areas of the network, such as providing ant… Continue reading Cyber Security Roundup for April 2019
The potential threat posed by Huawei to the UK national infrastructure continues to be played out. GCHQ called for a ban on Huawei technology within UK critical networks, such as 5G networks, while Three said a Huawei ban would delay the UK 5… Continue reading Cyber Security Roundup for March 2019
The perceived threat posed by Huawei to the UK national infrastructure continued to make the headlines throughout February, as politicians, UK government agencies and the Chinese telecoms giant continued to play out their rather public spat in the medi… Continue reading Cyber Security Roundup for February 2019
The first month of 2019 was a relatively slow month for cyber security in comparison with the steady stream of cyber attacks and breaches throughout 2018. On Saturday 26th January, car services and repair outfit Kwik Fit told customers its IT sys… Continue reading Cyber Security Roundup for January 2019
Aside from Brexit, Cyber Threats and Cyber Attack accusations against Russia are very much on the centre stage of UK government’s international political agenda at the moment. The government publically accused Russia’s military ‘GRU’ intelligence … Continue reading Cyber Security Roundup for October 2018
September 2018 started with a data breach bang, with British Airways disclosing a significant hack and data loss. 380,000 of the airlines’ website and mobile app customers had their debit and credit card details lifted via a maliciously injected s… Continue reading Cyber Security Roundup for September 2018
The largest data breach disclosed this month was by T-Mobile, the telecoms giant said there had been “unauthorised access” to potentially 2 million of their 77 million customer accounts. According to the media, a hacker took advantage of a vulnera… Continue reading Cyber Security Roundup for August 2018
The importance of assuring the security and testing quality of third-party provided applications is more than evident when you consider an NHS reported data breach of 150,000 patient records this month. The NHS said the breach was caused by a… Continue reading Cyber Security Roundup for July 2018
Dixons Carphone said hackers attempted to compromise 5.9 million payment cards and accessed 1.2 million personal data records. The company, which was heavily criticised for poor security and fined £400,000 by the ICO in January after been hacked i… Continue reading Cyber Security Roundup for June 2018