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Posted on 4 September 20252 September 2025

Jaguar Land Rover Cyber-attack

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There are reports of the Jaguar Land Rover Group is suffering major outage because of a cyber security attack. Jaguar Land Rover production severely hit by cyber attack – BBC News The company has already issued a statement saying “there is no evidence any customer data had been stolen”. Of …

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Posted on 14 August 202514 August 2025

How you treat your stakeholders is important…

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Marks & Spencer and the Co-op have made cyber security headlines over the past months with the attacks on their infrastructure: Marks & Spencer Cyber Attack UK Retail Cyber-attacks Phishing Attacks But the attack is not the whole story when it comes to an organisation dealing with an incident – …

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Posted on 30 July 202530 July 2025

Ransomware the Next Steps (pt.2) 

ransomware the next steps

In the first part of this article on how ransomware has changed, we looked at the actual attacks, today we are going to look at ransomware payments.  Ransomware. Pay up?  In the early days of ransomware, paying for the decryption key was an option. Although back then most people who …

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Posted on 14 July 202512 July 2025

UK Retail Cyber-attacks – Arrests have been made.

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A few months back it seems the only thing in the tech press were the cyber attacks on the Co-Op, Marks & Spencer and Harrods, from empty shelves and huge financial losses to phishing emails and abusive emails to the CEO. Here are some of my articles: Co-op – Data …

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Posted on 25 June 202518 June 2025

Hack Me If You Can – Think You’re Unhackable? Think Again. 

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We’ve all heard it: “It won’t happen to me.” Usually said moments before it does happen to you – whether it’s locking your keys in the car, burning the toast, or falling victim to a phishing email from “Your CEO” asking for iTunes vouchers.  Let’s face it – in today’s …

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