About: Alex Harris

Incident Response Exercises Not Taken Seriously by Business Leaders Only 2% of organizations have run incident response scenarios related to the pandemic response. According to research by Immersive Labs of 402 organizations, nearly 40% are not fully confident in their teams training to handle a data breach if one occurred, and 65% of exercises consist of reviewing…

Human Error Threatens Cloud Security Virtually all security professionals believe that human error could put the security of cloud data at risk, according to new research published today. A survey commissioned by Tripwire and carried out last month by Dimensional Research found that 93% of security professionals were concerned that human error could result in the accidental exposure of their cloud…

Over 43,000 Phishing Emails Slip Through NHS Security Filters More than 43,000 NHS staff have been hit by phishing emails over the past few months, as they battled to save patients infected with COVID-19, a Freedom of Information (FOI) request has revealed. Think tank Parliament Street asked NHS Digital for the data on spam and phishing emails…

A Third of UK Unis Hit By Ransomware in Last 10 Years Around a third (33%) of UK, universities have been targeted with ransomware, freedom of information (FOI) requests submitted by the agency TopLine Comms have revealed. Of the 134 universities the requests were sent to, 105 responded. Of these, 35 (33%) revealed they had been…

You can now host a 20,000-person Microsoft Teams meeting   Large scale company-wide events are now possible in Teams Microsoft is adding new features to Teams through an Advanced Communications plan which allows users of the company's video conferencing software to deliver online meetings and events at a much broader scale. As part of the new plan,…

Five signs you’re about to get hit with ransomware Ransomware attacks may often appear to come from nowhere, but there is a series of warning signs and indicators that cyber criminals are in your organisation’s network and are planning to launch a ransomware attack. And with a little practice, they can be spotted in time, according to researchers…

Cosmetics Giant Avon Leaks 19 Million Records A misconfigured cloud server at global cosmetics brand Avon was recently discovered leaking 19 million records including personal information and technical logs. Researchers at SafetyDetectives led by Anurag Sen told Infosecurity that they found the Elasticsearch database on an Azure server publicly exposed with no password protection or encryption. “The…

Cloud Breaches Set to Grow in “Velocity and Scale” Cloud breaches are likely to increase in “velocity and scale” due to a prevalence of poor cybersecurity practices in cloud configurations that are creating exposures. This is according to the most recent The State of DevSecOps report by Accurics, which assesses cloud configuration practices that lead to breaches. The…