by emma@themissus.co | Aug 13, 2020 | Advice, Cyber News, IT Security
More than 43,000 NHS staff have been hit by phishing emails over the past few months, as they battled to save patients infected with COVID-19, a Freedom of Information (FOI) request has revealed. Think tank Parliament Street asked NHS Digital for the data on spam and...
by emma@themissus.co | Aug 13, 2020 | Advice, Cyber News, IT Security
Around a third (33%) of UK universities have been targeted with ransomware, freedom of information (FOI) requests submitted by the agency TopLine Comms have revealed. Of the 134 universities the requests were sent to, 105 responded. Of these, 35 (33%) revealed they...
by emma@themissus.co | Aug 13, 2020 | Advice, Cyber News, IT Security
Virtually all security professionals believe that human error could put the security of cloud data at risk, according to new research published today. A survey commissioned by Tripwire and carried out last month by Dimensional Research found that 93% of security...
by emma@themissus.co | Aug 13, 2020 | Advice, Cyber News, IT Security
Only 2% of organizations have run incident response scenarios related to the pandemic response. According to research by Immersive Labs of 402 organizations, nearly 40% are not fully confident in their teams training to handle a data breach if one occurred, and 65% of...
by emma@themissus.co | Aug 3, 2020 | Advice, Cyber News, IT Security
A substantial proportion of second hand mobile phones are vulnerable to being hacked due to not being supported by important security updates, an investigation by Which? has found. The analysis centered around three popular mobile phone retailers: SmartFoneStore,...
by emma@themissus.co | Aug 3, 2020 | Advice, Cyber News, IT Security
The number of commodity malware campaigns exploiting machine identities doubled between 2018 and 2019, according to new research. The rapid increase in this particular type of cyber-scourge was unearthed by threat analysts at Venafi, who gathered data on the misuse of...
