UK CYBER SECURITY BREACHES AND ATTACKS INCREASING – EVEN BEFORE THE COVID-19 CRISIS
March 2nd, 2020
Businesses have in 2020 and 2019 been experiencing more frequent cyber breaches or attacks than they were in 2017, according to the British government’s official Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2020, with 32% of businesses (compared to 22% in 2017) and 22% of charities that reported attacks experiencing these issues at least once a week in 2020 and 2019. With research undertaken between October and December 2019 and follow up interviews this January and February, these attacks came before the recent Covid-19 movement restrictions told most workers to be based at ...
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