Data breaches of big companies regularly make the news – here is the latest: UK retailer WH Smith hit by another data thief • The Register Threat actors accessed past and present employee data and other company information, but customer information was secure from the attack as it is kept …
What is the Insider Threat?
I could get a dictionary definition here – but instead I will simply say it is a trusted employee betraying that trust and revealing your information to an unauthorised party. Most of us would immediately think people in high positions of trust selling high value information to your competitors and …
Another UK business has customer data stolen
This time it is the car retailer Arnold Clarke: Arnold Clark customer data ‘stolen in cyber attack’ – BBC News The data theft includes valuable ID information – copies of such documents as passports and driving licenses – as well as financial and personal data, all highly valued by threat …
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JD Sports hit by a cyber incident
The sportswear company JD Sports is reporting that potentially the data it held on over 10 million customers may have been accessed in a cyber attack: JD Sports says 10 million customers hit by cyber attack. – BBC News The issues covers several of the company’s brands: JD Sports is …
The Guardian Cyber Attack
I use The Guardian as one of my trusted “newspaper of record” sources here at Smart Thinking Solutions and as I have previously posted staff have been working from home and other systems compromised by a cyber attack that started last December: One of my trusted sources hit but a …
