Cyber Essentials was introduced in 2014 by the UK Government in collaboration with the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). The aim of the scheme is to improve the baseline cyber security posture of small businesses. In essence it is a practical, no-frills approach to addressing the key areas of cyber security. The basic concept is …
Cybersecurity is now a primary focus for companies and organisations of all types and sizes. Continuous change in technologies deployed to gain competitive advantage inevitably means a corresponding shift in cybersecurity trends. Phishing and ransomware attacks are increasingly with us and news reports of high-profile data breaches are becoming ever more the norm. As well …
Are you a Gmail user? When was the last time you took a look through the settings to make sure you are making the most of the security features? Beyond enabling 2FA (which you should now be doing on all online accounts), what can you do to make Gmail more secure? Well, Gmail has a …
Recent announcements by both Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome, have put DNS privacy into the spotlight.Changes in how DNS privacy is handled is a major change to the way the internet works but is little understood by the average user. So, what is DNS privacy and DNS over HTTPS and what effect will it have …
Cyber security is becoming a top priority for UK businesses as the attack landscape continues to grow.Cyber-attacks are constantly improving and diversifying, putting UK businesses at increasing risk. Ransomware and Crypto-Mining During the previous 12 months ransomware attacks such as WannaCry have been a persistent threat to organisations and it’s becoming more common for businesses …
According to our customers and security commentators here are some major trends that will be a feature of Cyber SecurityManagement in 2018. Cyber Security Resource Shortage The shortage of cybersecurity-skilled individuals will continue to be problem during 2018. Globally, many thousands of cybersecurity roles remained unfilled during 2017. Based on the numbers of qualified and …
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2014 will be remembered as a year where the cyber-threat landscape changed. Gone were the days when hackers launched random attacks against businesses in the vague hope that they might strike lucky. Instead they turned their attentions to targeted cyber-attacks against prominent retailers where the pickings were potentially rich. Successful mega-breaches/ intrusions against retailers like …
“Automated attacks began compromising Drupal 7 websites that were not patched or updated to Drupal 7.32 within hours of the announcement of SA-CORE-2014-005 – Drupal core – SQL injection. You should proceed under the assumption that every Drupal 7 website was compromised unless updated or patched before Oct 15th, 11pm UTC – that is 7 …
If you run your own business what gives you sleepless nights? What concerns or troubles you the most? Is it remaining competitive in a depressed market, or the struggle to access finance to fund expansion? Well, according to the latest HP-sponsored 2014 Ponemon Cost of Cyber-crime Study, the biggest worry for the majority of businesses …
Here’s a question for you. Who is behind all the hacking and cybercrime that we read about in our newspapers every week? Who’s controlling the hackers? Well, according to Troels Oerting, Head of Europol’s Cybercrime Centre, it’s an exclusive bunch of malware programming specialists. They are, he believes, around a hundred of these individual, mostly …
When J P Morgan announced in August that 1 million of its users’ bank accounts had been hacked by criminals, there was an outcry. Many security professionals understandably wanted to know why it had taken the bank 2 months to notify users about cyber-breach. They also wondered whether the bank might have been economical with …
What’s the biggest risk to the security of the financial services sector? Is it the threat of cyber-attack by unscrupulous hackers? Well – yes and no. Obviously financial institutions are at risk from hackers and are therefore taking the necessary steps to minimise the risks they are exposed to, but according to Brian Lord, a …
What does the term ‘cyber resilience’ mean to you? The chances are the answer is not very much. Yes, you could hazard a guess about it roughly relating to the protection of valuable online assets and data against third party theft or hacking, but the probability is that that’s as far as your definition would …