It has been reported that the UK government’s Ministry of Defence has suffered a data breach. An an armed forces payroll system was compromised and Grant Shapps MP, the Defence Secretary has reported to MPs that state involvement cannot be ruled out. MoD data breach: State involvement cannot be ruled …
The Capita hack keep gathering victims
Capita is the largest outsourcing company in the UK and counts among it’s contracts the UK Government, the Ministry of Defence, local authorities and businesses. When Capita’s security was breached it was going to lead to an ever increasing list of victims as the investigation proceeded. Capita hack: 90 organisations …
The Capita Data Breach
Why does the Capita data breach have something to teach every organisation about cyber security? When a company has many clients for whom they do so many things, it stands to reason that threat actors will take an interest. One breach and the criminals get access to a wide range …
Outsourcing company for the MoD suffers a “cyber incident”
Capita is the largest outsourcing company in the UK and counts among it’s contracts the Ministry of Defence’s nuclear submarine training simulators, has reported it has suffered a “cyber incident”. Capita, company providing UK’s nuclear submarine training, confirms ‘cyber incident’ (therecord.media) The nature of the incident has not been disclosed …
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