The more underrated form of cybersecurity is that of insider attacks. These threats don’t need to hack through the firewalls first defence to gain access, as they already have access to the network. If businesses and organisations want to protect their sensitive data, they need to practice spotting potential threats from within and have a…
Browser security is never foremost in a business owner’s thoughts. With security threats evolving and more people working from home, browser security has never been so important. Web browsers facilitate easy entry for phishing, ransomware attacks and malicious downloads. Even mobile browsers can be vulnerable as evidenced by the recent mobile address bar spoofing attacks…
Data loss is a serious problem for any business – it costs time and money to put right. Losing data that is crucial to the day-to-day running of your business can be catastrophic and even threaten its survival. The most obvious cost of data loss is the financial one. Data loss can be disastrous to…
If you haven’t been on the wrong end of a malware attack, the scary truth is that is could only be a matter of time. Millions of people fall foul to cyberattacks from different types of malware each year. The number of high-profile cases that cost billions to put right continues to grow – the…
A shortened summary of the PDL Data Breach Cybersecurity experts Bob Diachenko and Vinny Troia discovered back in October last year that 1.2 billion people’s personal data records were available for anyone to access on a Deep Access internet server. The data, proven to come from People Data Labs (PDL), included 622 million individual email…
For SMEs, the threat of a cyber attack is very real. Many small business owners overlook cyber security, assuming that their company would never be the target of a highly sophisticated cyber attack. But cyber attacks targeting SMEs are on the rise, and cyber criminals are exploiting the vulnerabilities of small businesses at an alarming…