From Travel for London (TfL) being targeted by a cyber attack to Blackpool Trust Schools data being held for ransom, September 2024 marked a diverse range of cyber attacks and data breaches.

Here’s the other top stories you need to read:

UK law firms facing cyber threats

UK law firms are facing a torrent of cyber threats – here’s why.

Managing your cybersecurity risks

IT Governance have shared a guide to managing your cybersecurity, starting with risk management.

Senior executives targeted by cyber attacks

Around three-quarters of British senior executives have been targeted by cyber attacks in the past 18 months, with AI-generated deepfakes involved in 22% of the attacks.

Public concern about IT systems

New research has revealed that the public are ‘worried’ about organisations relying on IT systems in the wake of the CrowdStrike IT outages.


2,000 cyber attacks per second

According to a new report by BT, malicious scans of online (Internet Protocol) networks and devices have surged by over 1,234% in the last year alone. This equates to 2,000 cyber attacks per second.


UK cybersecurity skills

The UK government has recently released a report in cyber security skills in the UK labour market 2024

  • Across the economy, around half (44%) of businesses have skills gaps in basic technical areas.
  • Incident management skills gaps have increased from 27% in 2020 to 48% in 2024.
  • Despite the skills gap, demand for cyber security professionals has fallen, with core cyber job postings decreasing by 32% between 2002 and 2023.

Cyber exercise in a box

The NCSC has shared a free resource which helps organisations find out how resilient they are to cyber attacks and practise their response.

Try the exercise.

Job roles lost due to cyber attacks

The severity of cyber attacks is directly contributing to job losses with a third of cyber attacks leading to employee dismissals.

Gaps in cyber resilience

New research from Trend Micro has revealed that UK organisations lack sufficient resources and leadership buy-in to measure and mitigate risk across their digital attack surface.

The top three gaps in cyber-resilience revealed by respondents were:

  • Sufficient staffing for 24/7/365 cybersecurity coverage – which just 31% have
  • Attack surface management techniques to measure the risk of the attack surface (used by 32%)
  • Using proven regulatory and other frameworks like the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (only 34%)

The insider threat

Did you know, 68% of data breaches involved a “non-malicious human element”, such as human error or falling for social engineering? This makes the insider threat the biggest risk to your business.

Weak passwords put small firms at risk

69% of UK small businesses currently use weak passwords to access important documents.

Could your team be putting your business at risk?