About: Alex Harris

How a remote workforce is shifting priorities The pandemic has accelerated the move to digital transformation, forcing IT and cybersecurity teams to evaluate how they work to ensure that organizations remain secure. In particular, challenges have included the widespread adoption of hardware packages but also guaranteeing that employees have 24/7 access to their organizations’ IT infrastructure and files that…

British Airways fined £20m over data breach British Airways has been fined £20m ($26m) by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) for a data breach which affected more than 400,000 customers. The breach took place in 2018 and affected both personal and credit card data. The fine is considerably smaller than the £183m that the ICO…

The US to Grow Space Force Cybersecurity Team The Pentagon is to significantly increase the size of the United States Space Force's cybersecurity team. Plans to add over a thousand new personnel were revealed by the force's chief technology and innovation officer, US Space Force Major General Kimberly Crider. Speaking at the CyberSatGov virtual event held yesterday,…

Parents Using School Payment Service Have Card Details Compromised UK school payment service Wisepay has revealed that the card details of parents who made transactions on its site between October 2 and 5 have been compromised. This was after Wisepay’s website was hacked, resulting in an attacker harvesting payment details via a spoof page. The…

Remote Workers Keep IT Issues to Themselves New research has found that the majority of company employees who experience an IT issue while working remotely do not report the problem to their IT support team. In September 2020, cybersecurity company NetMotion surveyed 500 IT professionals and 500 remote workers in the United States and the United Kingdom about their…

21% of UK Workers Feel More Vulnerable to Cybercrime During COVID-19 More than one in five (21%) UK workers feel more vulnerable to cybercrime since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study by PwC. Stress or fatigue was the most common factor (35%) cited by those workers, followed by lack of skills…

One in Three Not Worried About Cybersecurity Despite Rising Threats Around one in three (31%) people in the UK are not actively concerned about cybersecurity, according to a study by ESET. In a survey of 2000 UK citizens, which looked at their cybersecurity habits, more than half (57%) do not believe they’ve been hacked and 46%…

Microsoft Teams Confirms Superb New Updates And Features To Beat Zoom Microsoft’s Teams had a very busy September adding a host of new features. Now, the firm is looking to improve the performance of its Teams service as it continues in the battle to beat Zoom in the video conferencing space. In an update detailing the…

Ransomware: from Entry to Ransom in Under 45 Minutes Ransomware gangs are performing wide-ranging internet scans to find vulnerable systems and then accelerating attacks to just minutes to capitalize on COVID-19, Microsoft has warned. Corporate VP of customer security and trust, Tom Burt, revealed the findings in a blog post introducing the firm’s Digital Defense…

Fashion Retailer BrandBQ Exposes Seven Million Customer Records A European fashion retailer has become the latest big-name brand to expose personal data on millions of its customers after misconfiguring a cloud database. Researchers at vpnMentor discovered the unencrypted Elasticsearch server on June 28 and parent company BrandBQ finally secured it around a month later, on…