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One of the UK’s most exclusive golf clubs has warned 4,000 members that their personal details may have been compromised in a ransomware attack. The Wentworth Club, whose members include high-profile celebrities, emailed those affected offering its “profuse apologies” after …
Ethical hackers have discovered a security vulnerability at the United Nations, giving them access to more than 100,000 private employee records. The breach stems from exposed Git directories and credential files on domains associated with the UNEP (United Nations Environmental …
With data breaches soaring over the past two years and organisations struggling with the technical demands of the coronavirus pandemic, PwC has declared this a critical point for the cyber security industry. Its Cyber security strategy 2021: An urgent business …
Welcome to the second part of our cyber security review of 2020, in which we look back at the biggest stories from July to December. You can read the first part here >> July With COVID-19 under control, the UK …
You may remember hearing several months ago that the London Borough of Hackney had been targeted by a cyber attack. The council provided few details at the time, but the evidence suggested that it was a ransomware infection. That became …
Unprecedented. Challenging. In it together. New normal. Now more than ever. It’s hard to summarise 2020 without resorting to cliché, considering that our experiences have been so universal and subject to such little variety. There was toilet roll hoarding, Zoom …
The cyber security giant FireEye announced yesterday that it had been targeted by a sophisticated cyber attack, which resulted in criminals stealing an arsenal of hacking tools. FireEye uses these tools to test the defences of its clients, which include …
Some of the world’s most popular musicians have had their Spotify pages defaced with messages supporting Donald Trump and Taylor Swift. The criminal hacker, who called himself Daniel, replaced the biographies of artists including Dua Lipa and Lana Del Rey …
A database belonging to Prestige Software – containing over 10 million files – has been found publicly accessible online. Security experts working for Website Planet discovered that the Spanish software firm failed to password-protect an AWS S3 bucket that held …
Experian has been selling millions of people’s personal information without their consent, the UK’s data protection watchdog has found. An ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) investigation revealed that the credit reference agency has been selling personal data to political parties and …
