Data Breach

October 2024

October 2024


Vol. 7, Iss. 42
Robin’s Newsletter #331
Vol. 7, Iss. 42

Chinese accusations of Intel backdoors. Microsoft loses customer security logs. Hong Kong arrests in multi-milloin deepfake video scams.

August 2024

August 2024


Vol. 7, Iss. 31
Robin’s Newsletter #320
Vol. 7, Iss. 31

Electoral Commission slammed for 'basic errors'. CrowdStrike faces multiple legal challenges. $75 million record-breaking ransomware payment.

March 2024

March 2024


Vol. 7, Iss. 11
Robin’s Newsletter #300
Vol. 7, Iss. 11

British Library lessons learned. Personal info of 43 million French citizens may have been leaked. McDonlad's outage caused by third-party configuration error.

December 2023

December 2023


Vol. 6, Iss. 51
Robin’s Newsletter #287
Vol. 6, Iss. 51

Russian group claims responsibility for knocking out Ukraine's largest telco. National Grid removing Chinese tech from electricity network. PSNI breach expected to cost over £20M.

April 2023

April 2023


Vol. 6, Iss. 16
Robin’s Newsletter #252
Vol. 6, Iss. 16

US classified documents leaked on Discord. UK Online Safety Bill may 'damage reputation'. The 2019 Oldsmar ICS incident was human error.

October 2022

October 2022


Vol. 5, Iss. 43
Robin’s Newsletter #227
Vol. 5, Iss. 43

Microsoft leaves 2.4TB of 'business transaction data' in public Azure bucket. Head of Germany's cyber agency suspended for links to Russian intelligence. Optus unilaterally blocks data breach victim's passports.


Vol. 5, Iss. 41
Robin’s Newsletter #225
Vol. 5, Iss. 41

Ex-Uber CSO found guilty of obstructing justice. Microsoft is botching 'ProxyNotShell' Exchange vulnerabilities. Australian man arrested in connection with Optus breach.


Vol. 5, Iss. 40
Robin’s Newsletter #224
Vol. 5, Iss. 40

Optus breach attacker retracts demands as attention grows. Rise in fake LinkedIn CISO profiles. Microsoft Exchange Zero-Day.

September 2022

September 2022


Vol. 5, Iss. 37
Robin’s Newsletter #221
Vol. 5, Iss. 37

Ex-Uber CISO trial underway for bug bounty handling of data breach. UK, US, Albania condemn Iranian cyber-attacks. China accuses NSA of spying.

July 2022

July 2022


Vol. 5, Iss. 31
Robin’s Newsletter #215
Vol. 5, Iss. 31

Facial recognition use at Co-Op convenience stores and 'secret blacklists' challenged in the UK. The opportunity cost in action bias. And protestware, the 'insider threat' of hacktivism.

August 2021

August 2021


Vol. 4, Iss. 34
Robin’s Newsletter #166
Vol. 4, Iss. 34

T-Mobile suffers *another* data breach. Pearson settles over misleading investors. Outrage in cyber risk. Anyone can post a LinkedIn job as pretty much any company.

November 2020

November 2020


Vol. 3, Iss. 45
Robin’s Newsletter #125
Vol. 3, Iss. 45

Nothing cyber happened in the US election. Corporate VOIP systems being targeted. Don't pay ransomware gangs to not leak your data.


Vol. 3, Iss. 44
Robin’s Newsletter #124
Vol. 3, Iss. 44

Marriott's data breach penalty, how the Clean Network Program is changing 5G economics, reverse-engineering redaction and new ransom threat to health data. Plus company naming fun.

October 2020

October 2020


Vol. 3, Iss. 42
Robin’s Newsletter #122
Vol. 3, Iss. 42

British Airways fined £20M for data breach; Businesses exploiting contact tracing data; Microsoft's trademark takedown of TrickBot.

August 2020

August 2020


Vol. 3, Iss. 34
Robin’s Newsletter #114
Vol. 3, Iss. 34

Personal liability for CISOs in data breach cover-ups, 'fraudulent data requests' at Experian and mailto: attachment vulnerability.

May 2020

May 2020


Vol. 3, Iss. 21
Robins Newsletter #101
Vol. 3, Iss. 21

The annual DBIR data-fest, looking in to EasyJet's breach, the importance of audit trails, and Trump's banking details

April 2020

April 2020


Vol. 3, Iss. 1
Robin’s Newsletter #81
Vol. 3, Iss. 1

California's Consumer Privacy Act; Travelex systems still offline; the rise of 'data exposures'.


Vol. 3, Iss. 11
Robin’s Newsletter #91
Vol. 3, Iss. 11

Future U.S. cyber strategy; Whisper not-so-secret; wormable Microsoft vulnerability in SMB