Saturday, 04 April 2026

Security fears as taxman loses laptops, mobiles and tablet computers worth hundreds of thousands of pounds

London: Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has reported 1,491 electronic devices lost or stolen over the past five years, according to official figures.

The data, retrieved via the Freedom of Information Act (FOI) and analysed by the Parliament Street think tank, observed the number of mobile phones, laptops and tablets lost or stolen over the past five years, each year from April 2017 to December 2021.

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Pindrop’s leading authentication and fraud detection technologies streamline call centre customer experience and can reduce fraud losses by more than 15%

ATLANTA: Pindrop has announced the findings of a commissioned Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) Study conducted by Forrester Consulting. The study interviewed six Pindrop customers, aggregated the interviewees’ experiences and combined the results into a single, mid-size composite customer organisation. The findings for the composite organisation reveal a  171% return on investment and a net present value (NPV) of $11.60 million using its Pindrop(R) Protect, Passport, and VeriCall(R) Technology solutions over three years.

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Number of industrial organisations with external connections to their Industrial Control Systems doubled, yet 86% of organisations report limited-to-no visibility of ICS environments

LONDON, UK: Dragos, Inc. has released its fifth annual Dragos ICS/OT Cybersecurity Year in Review (YIR) report, the most comprehensive report on cyber threats facing industrial organisations. The report named the emergence of three new threat groups targeting ICS/OT environments, including two that have gained access into the OT systems of industrial organisations. The report also shows the number of discovered vulnerabilities in OT systems in 2021 more than doubled over the previous year to 1,703. Ransomware became the number-one attack vector among industrial organisations, with manufacturing as the most targeted sector representing 65%, or 211, of the ransomware cases detected at industrial organisations.

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  15. Dudley based security business, Zicam: Part of wider West Midlands business movement



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