Norfolk and Suffolk constabularies have identified an issue relating to a very small percentage of responses to Freedom of Information (FOI) requests for crime statistics, issued between April 2021 and March 2022. A technical issue has led to some raw data belonging to the constabularies being included within the files produced in response to the […]

Every police officer in Northern Ireland has had their personal details leaked, leaving officers and their families ‘frightened’, following a staff data breach. The names, work locations and ranks of all officers were leaked in response to a freedom of information (FOI) request. Police Service Northern Ireland Assistant Chief Constable, Chris Todd, said the breach […]

The Electoral Commission has revealed that it has been struck by a ‘complex cyberattack’ which saw cybercriminals access electoral registers. The initial breach occurred in August 2021 as ‘hostile actors’ gained access to copies of electoral registers, but the attack was not identified until October 2022, over a year later. The Electoral Commission admitted that […]

Thousands of satellites are currently orbiting the Earth and there will be many more in the future. Researchers from Ruhr University Bochum and the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security in Saarbrücken have assessed the security of these systems from an IT perspective. They analysed three current low-earth orbit satellites and found that, from a […]

The Estée Lauder Companies has identified a cybersecurity incident, which involves an unauthorised third party that has gained access to some of its systems. After becoming aware of the incident, the company proactively took down some of its systems and promptly began an investigation with the assistance of leading third-party cybersecurity experts. The company is […]

The Norwegian Government Security and Service Organisation (DSS) has detected a cyberattack on the ICT platform used by 12 ministries. The matter is currently being investigated by the police. “We are taking this incident very seriously. The Norwegian Government Security and Service Organisation (DSS) is cooperating closely with the National Security Authority (NSM) and the […]

IT Governance, the global provider of cyber-risk and privacy management solutions, discovered that more than 14.3 million records were compromised in 79 publicly disclosed security incidents in June 2023. These statistics indicate a 59% decrease from June 2022. However, June 2023 was noteworthy for the MOVEit breach. More than 13 million records were compromised as […]

NHS details of more than a million patients have been compromised in a cyberattack, senior health chiefs have been warned. A recent ransomware attack on the University of Manchester affected an NHS patient dataset that holds information on 1.1 million patients across 200 hospitals, according to a report in The Independent. Among the details potentially […]

The European Investment Bank tweeted recently, claiming it was facing a cyberattack and was working to fix the incident. Jamie Moles, Cybersecurity Expert and Senior Technical Manager at ExtraHop, commented on the news: “[Recently], pro-Russian hacking group, Killnet, threatened to destroy European Banks within 48 hours and through means not including DDoS. Yet, almost a week later […]

Progress Software has released a security advisory for a privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2023-35708) in MOVEit Transfer — a Managed File Transfer Software. CISA has urged users and organisations to review the MOVEit Transfer advisory, follow the mitigation steps and apply the necessary updates when available. Sergey Shykevich, Group Manager at Check Point Research, commented: “The MOVEit attack proves […]