The London Fire Brigade, the fire and rescue service for the UK’s capital, has been targeted by nearly 340,000 cyber-attacks over the past year.
The data was collected under the Freedom of Information Act (FOI), and analysed by the Parliament Street think tank, observing the number of blocked email attacks by the department. In total, the London Fire Brigade blocked 338,114 cyber attacks over a 12 month period, including malware, phishing, spam and web reputation which is caused by pop-ups on malicious websites. Spam accounted for the highest proportion of the attacks by a distance, making up 94% of the total threats.
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Source: MSN News
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