Information Security
Its valentines day and whether you love or hate it, there’s always a few broken hearts. But don’t let your cybersecurity be one of them.
Here are 3 simple tips to show your cybersecurity how you really feel this valentines day.
Read more “Give your cybersecurity some love”
Information Security
Social Media platform giant Twitter reported a security incident on Wednesday 15th July 20 which affected scores of verified accounts including Bill Gates, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. These accounts were used to promote a bitcoin scam that netted hackers an estimated $120,000 bitcoin.
Read more “How to protect your business from a Twitter-style hack”
COVID-19
Following on from our post about data protection and contact tracing, we’ve been researching ways to capture these details safely and securely. Simply there are two different ways to capture contact details.
Read more “Contact tracing: How to capture details safely?”
COVID-19
As Pubs, Restaurants and other similar businesses in hospitality re-opened at the weekend, providing a safe environment for visitors has been a top priority.
Alongside the social distancing, hand sanitiser and perspex screens is a recommendation to capture visitor (and staff) contact details for contact tracing purposes. This is performed by the NHS track and trace team in the event of a positive case.
Read more “Data protection and contact tracing”
COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a seismic shift towards digital interaction throughout our lives. Remote working became mainstream overnight across thousands of businesses, with virtual meetings and collaboration tools becoming necessities for work and keeping in contact with loved ones. Businesses (and their IT partners) have had to quickly and urgently adapt their business processes, in some cases changing their policy on remote working on-the-fly to keep their businesses functional.
Read more “COVID-19 – stay secure and stay safe.”
Information Security
The security research team at Cybereason has recently highlighted the threats from attempting to download ‘cracked’ copies of Microsoft or Adobe products. The research team found that these copies of software had been laced with some particularly nasty malware, which starts by attempting to steal passwords and other information, then contacts a commercial service to download even more malware.
Read more “Psst..do you want some ‘free’ software?”
Information Security
Happy New Year! And to a new decade. Many of us are already in the midst of working on our new years’ goals, from eating healthy to better well-being. In business, we’re planning the next year’s goals and ambitions; sales forecasts, marketing strategies etc.
But do those goals include protecting your business (and yourself) from a cyber attack?
Read more “Covering your hidden threats”
Information Security
According to the NCSC and insurance provider AIG over 23% of all cyber insurance claims in 2018 were because of BEC attacks, even over-performing other popular attacks:
Read more “Did you get caught Phishing this summer?”Ransomware at 18% and data breaches at 14% of total claims were relegated to second and third places. Total claims (for Business Email Compromises) in 2018 amounted to more than those in 2016 and 2017 combined.
Source: https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/report/weekly-threat-report-6th-september-2019
Information Security
Whilst I’m not an avid radio listener, this week I tuned into a spokesperson from the NCSC (UK’s Cyber Security Centre) discussing cyber security and in particular a new top 1000 passwords list that has been compiled in conjunction with Troy Hunt (haveibeenpwned.com). It won’t take you many guesses to find out which passwords were in the top 5 still, but in-case you’re interested here’s a snippet below:
Read more “It’s time to get serious with Passwords”
Information Security
The UK governments annual Cyber Security Breaches Survey (2018) highlights the lack of regular reporting regarding cyber security activities and events to senior executives (business owners, board members etc) and line management.
Read more “Cyber security activities – are you kept up to date?”