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There were 81 publicly disclosed cyber security incidents in November 2021 totalling 223,615,390 breached records. With only one month to go in the year the annual running total of compromised records is just shy of 5 billion. Labour Party hit by Cyber Attack Members of the Labour Party were involved in a cyber attack on […]

On 19 August 2021, Microsoft announced an update to their commercial pricing for Microsoft 365. This is the first substantive update to its pricing since Office 365 was released in June 2011, and is designed to reflect the innovation that Microsoft has made within the suite over the last ten years. To help meet the […]

In October 2021, there were 94 publicly disclosed cyber security incidents, accounting for 51,248,331 breached records. Most of these breached records have come from a single cyber-attack, where an attacker hacked into Argentina’s government ID database, with every citizen of the country thought to be affected: Argentina’s population data theft A hacker has breached the […]

Despite the fact that Windows Home is designed for use in domestic environments, we regularly bring on new clients who use it for their business. Historically, Microsoft has been pretty relaxed about these breaches of their user agreement, but while you can use it to operate commercially, should you? Typically, users have the Home edition of […]

As a business committed to our own cybersecurity and that of our clients, we take pride in external certifications that independently audit and validate our exacting standards. As well as being Cyber Essentials certified, we were one of the first companies in the country to gain the ISO27001:2013 certification after its 2013 overhaul. The ISO27001 […]

In September 2021, there have been very few security incidents in the UK compared to normal. What’s more,  despite 97 security incidents, comprising 91,127,815 million breached records, there is something unusual in that a single incident accounted for most of those records – 61 million – which were exposed via an unsecured database: Fitness Tracker […]

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, for which we are proud ambassadors. As we all get stuck in to learning and sharing everything we need to know about Cyber Defences, our MD Claire has written an article over on LinkedIn, highlighting the importance of creating the right culture for security to thrive. “Shame is best friends […]

As part of their evolution in performance, security, and infrastructure, the major operating system (OS) providers – Microsoft, Apple etc. – provide an updated version of their OS at fairly regular intervals. Most commonly provided as a free upgrade to existing users, it will feature a unique set of enhancements compared with the previous version. […]

August 2021 has been a ‘quiet’ month with very few reported cyber-attacks and data breaches, compared to some previous months. August only saw 84 incidents accounting for 60,865,828 breached records, and that figure would be a lot less if not for the attack on T-Mobile. The T-Mobile incident was  originally reported as only affecting 7.8 […]