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Cyber Breaches Survey 2025 – Free Infographic!

April 10, 2025April 10, 2025
by Triston

The UK Government annually conducts and releases a Cyber Security Breaches Survey. This survey provides a glimpse into the current state of cyber security in the UK.

Our infographic distils some important trends and risks facing Micro and Small businesses (1-49 employees) and a view of the ongoing efforts of micro and small businesses to improve their cyber security.

This year, instead of throwing it behind a landing page and form, it’s available for free!

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LastPass : Is it time to leave?

January 18, 2023April 16, 2023
by Triston

2022 was not LastPass’s year. For those unaware, the Password Mis-manager has been the target of a number of security incidents. The last in November resulted in a significant breach of customer information.

The saga started in August when one of LastPass’s developer accounts was compromised and used to extract technical information about LastPass’s platform including some source code from their development environment (essentially the blueprints to LastPasses environment). No production information (customer information or vaults) was accessed at this time.

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2022: a year in cyber incidents

December 15, 2022December 15, 2022
by Triston

What a year 2022 has been! From the fallout of the COVID pandemic still lingering (including Partygate), Storm Eunice, Russia invading Ukraine, the Queens Platinum Jubilee, Summer heatwaves and droughts, two new prime ministers, the death of the Queen, strikes and the raising cost of living crisis, we’ve seen another year of significant change.

2022 has also continued to be another significant year regarding cyber security breaches with more breaches targeting Health and Education.

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Give your cybersecurity some love

February 14, 2021February 14, 2021
by Triston

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.

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How to protect your business from a Twitter-style hack

July 31, 2020
by Triston

Background

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.

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COVID-19 – stay secure and stay safe.

May 16, 2020May 17, 2020
by Triston

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.

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Psst..do you want some ‘free’ software?

February 8, 2020February 15, 2020
by Triston

Chances are you’re getting more than you bargained for.

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.

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Covering your hidden threats

January 5, 2020February 14, 2020
by Triston

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?

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Did you get caught Phishing this summer?

October 11, 2019October 11, 2019
by Triston

Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks have become one of the most successful and damaging forms of Phishing, as attackers switch tactics to avoid detection and typical end-user awareness.

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:

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

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It’s time to get serious with Passwords

May 1, 2019April 28, 2019
by Triston

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: