Cybersecurity roundup November 2024
From Amazon and Starbucks being targeted, November 2024 marked a diverse range of cyber attacks and data breaches. Here’s the other top stories you need to read: Cyber readiness report Google Cloud has shared its 2025 cybersecurity forecast with AI-powered attacks, geopolitical tensions, and sophisticated cyber crime attacks being just a few of the challenges […]
Making the move to digital: the PTSN and ISDN switch off
The PTSN and ISDN switch off is happening across the UK, but what does that mean for you and your business? PSTN and ISDN run on wholesale line rental, an old, often unreliable network. Wholesale line rental will be closed down by Openreach in January 2027 with customers already unable to buy any new PTSN […]
Cybersecurity roundup October 2023
October 2023 had 114 cyber incidents, accounting for more than 867 million records. This compares to 3.8 billion in September, 79 million in August, 146 million in July, 14 million in June, 98 million in May, 4.3 million in April, 42 million in March and 29.5 million in February, but it still doesn’t come close […]
A wonderful day with our customers
We were thrilled to welcome a lovely bunch of our customers to the BT Assembly building in Bristol on Wednesday 4 October to hear all about SCG, our partners, and the technology available to support your business, team, and productivity. We had some brilliant guest speakers from EE, BT Group, and members of our own […]
Cybersecurity roundup September 2023
September 2023 had 71 cyber incidents, accounting for more than 3.8 billion compromised records. This brings the year’s total to over 4.5 billion. This makes it the worst month for breached data this year, even outperforming January which had a whopping 277.6 million records breached. September saw the biggest data breach of the year by […]
Cybersecurity Round Up May 2023
May was an astronomical month for data records breached, with more than 98 million records breached across 98 incidents. This compares to 4.3 million in April, 42 million in March and 29.5 million in February, but it doesn’t come close to the astounding 277.6 million in January. The majority of the 98 million breached records […]
Spotlight on Sharon
A bubbly go-getter in our Account Management Team, when Sharon Adams isn’t busy chatting to customers and planning fit-for-purpose account upgrades, you’ll find her driving our charitable fundraising with themed events and plenty of baking. Sharon is great at getting to the core of what a client needs, aligning it with technology that will work, […]
Spotlight on Louis
As Louis heads for retirement from office life, it seems only fitting that we put him in the spotlight for a staff interview, reflecting on his many years bringing a sense of peace and calm to the office. As Head of Security, Director of Team Cuddles, and Chief Sniffer, Louis has given many years of […]
Cybersecurity Round Up April 2023
The breach figure for April took a nosedive compared to previous months, with ‘just’ 4.3million records breached, compared to 42 million in March, 29.5 million in February, and a whopping 277.6 million in January. Over 50% of April breached records came from a US medical services provider – Shields Health Care Group – who saw […]