Both of the data leaks at the Cambridge Addenbrooke’s Hospital appear to be because of failures in how information was released in response of Freedom of Information requests: Data breach by Addenbrooke’s Hospital reveals patient information – BBC News The information has not leaked any further than the primary recipients, …
QR Code Attacks
One of our IT clients suffered a minor QR Code attack, when they discovered that their QR code they had displayed in their window had been covered, outside the glass, by another code on a sticker. This code pointed to a Facebook page for a local music gig – so …
Back to passwords. Again!
It looks like I cannot get away from articles about passwords, which is not really a bad thing as passwords are still fundamental to everyone’s cyber security. I often read in the cyber security technical press that cyber attacks on even the biggest organisations start with the compromise of a …
Has Sellafield been hacked?
The UK Government denies that Sellafield, the nuclear research and processing site located on the Cumbria coast, has been infected with malware since 2015. Sellafield nuclear site hacked by groups linked to Russia and China | The Guardian The fears are that some of the mist confidential information stored on …
Booking.com hacked
There are reports of customers being angry with the response of Booking.com to a cyber-attack that has compromised their systems and has resulted in the theft of money from customers by the hackers. Booking.com users angry at firm’s response to hacks – BBC News How a company responds to its …
