Blogs

While the new year brings such hope for the months ahead, January sadly didn’t fulfil that promise, with more than 277.6 million records breached – higher than in any single month last year. Data from a breach of Twitter was the biggest culprit, with 220 million email addresses leaked by hackers. In other news, T-Mobile […]

2022 became the year of password hygiene, as experts around the world highlighted the very simple, but very important step of improving passwords to help protect your systems. Poor passwords are responsible for millions of breaches every year, and making simple improvements could have a very significant impact. Overall, there were more than 1,000 major […]

The end of the year saw December on average par with many of the months in 2022 when it came to records breached. November saw 32 million records breached, while December came in a close second with 31.5million breached. As the year drew to a close, reflections on the year and predictions for the year […]

November closed with more than 32 million records breached, although a data breach at Twitter and one at Whoosh (a Russian scooter-sharing company) account for the majority of these breached records. An alleged breach at WhatsApp has also put the data of 500 million users up for sale, but this has not been counted in […]

ISO standards provide an internationally-recognised certification in a particular area of your business and have long been recognised as the epitome of doing things the right way. Since 2014, Eurolink has been inspected annually against the ISO27001:2013 standards to review our security management systems, and this year is no exception. November saw us undertake reassessment, […]

When it comes to attention to detail, unflinching focus, and the ability to relentlessly follow-through, Marianne is your gal. As well as being our Compliance Manager, supporting us to meet our regulatory and certification requirements, Marianne is also the driving force behind many of our operational improvements, including our drive to net zero, our work […]

October has concluded as the month with the second highest number of security incidents (102) this year, trailing only August which saw 112 incidents. Surprisingly, the number of breached records was comparatively “low” at just 9.9 million, although it is likely this figure will rise as the impact of different breaches are measured. What’s more, […]

With less than half the breached records of August, September can be considered a “quiet” month in comparison, with “just” 35.5million records breached across 88 incidents, in comparison to 97million in August. Here’s the top stories from the month… Australian Telecommunications giant suffers 10million record breach On the last day of September, it was revealed […]

You may well be familiar with Paul, who is part of our front line customer support team, and always a friendly, calm voice at the end of our phone lines. Paul is one of our IT/Network Technicians and is absolutely brilliant at problem-solving, with great attention to detail. He’s also the Eurolink boomerang, leaving us […]