Tag: Manchester
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Contractor Data Breach Impacts 8k Greater Manchester Police Officers
The data breach affected over 8,000 Greater Manchester Police officers. The hackers targeted a company that produces warrant cards for the …
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Greater Manchester police officers’ data hacked in cyber-attack
The Guardian has been told that information relating to “thousands” of officers has been breached but that this is not believed to …
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Manchester University Breach Victims Hit with Triple Extortion
Staff and students at Manchester University have been sent threatening emails designed to put pressure on the institution to pay a ransom, …
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REvil hackers to leak photos of plastic surgery patients after massive hack
A Manchester, England-based prominent cosmetic and weight loss specialist The Hospital Group has suffered a massive ransomware attack …
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Day 4 of outage: UK’s Manchester police deploy exciting new carbon-based method to record crime
Greater Manchester Police is struggling with a partial outage of a Capita-built computer system used by frontline officers to input …
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Get ahead of the cyber-criminals using training and advice from SANS Manchester in 2020
Promo The IT security landscape changes by the second, as organisations move to new technologies and data thieves devise increasingly …
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BSides Manchester Hits Back at Sponsor Influence Claims
The organizers of BSides Manchester have hit back at accusations of corporate influence by a sponsor. In a series of tweets, degenerateDaE …
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Manchester plod still running 1,500 XP machines
Greater Manchester Police (GMP) currently has 1,518 PCs running on Microft’s dusty operating system Windows XP, according to a Freedom of Information response. This equates 20.3 per cent of the total PC fleet that GMP has in use, despite Microsoft ending support for the much loved operating systems back in April 2014. Read full news…
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BSides Manchester: Malvertising – under the hood
I’ve talked about malvertising a fair bit at security events down the years and I was lucky enough to be able to add to the tally at this month’s BSides Manchester conference. Whether your preferred variety is desktop, mobile, or even virtual/augmented reality, there’s hopefully something here for everyone. Read full news article on Malwarebytes Unpacked…
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