The evolving threat of ransomware has been growing for some time but it really burst into people’s consciousness in early May. That’s when a small group of hackers, apparently based in Russia, but not acting on behalf of the Kremlin, shut down the biggest fuel pipeline in the US for almost a week. It
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Attacks on SME’s The vast majority of cyber attacks are not very hi-tech at all. They’re committed by opportunists who are looking for easy targets and who know that most small businesses whose resources are left unguarded on the internet. All it takes is a lost password or an insecure network and you become a
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When former US President Donald Trump dismissed the sophisticated Russian hack of the US elections by saying that it ‘could be somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds’ he was playing into the mistaken, but commonly-held belief about cybercriminals that they are these weird, loner outcasts who need to get outside more. Nothing
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When online clothing retailer FatFace was hacked in January 2021, it disobeyed one of the golden rules of managing a cybersecurity crisis; it kept quiet about it for two months before downplaying the threat, saying only that “some employment related information’ had been accessed by third parties.” We now know that was only the tip
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Perhaps it’s due to the pandemic forcing everyone to work from home, thus revealing their online security vulnerabilities. Perhaps it’s the massive increase in security threats that are occurring in the UK on a weekly level. It could even be a growing interest in cryptocurrency and how to secure it…but whatever the reasons, one thing
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Silver Sparrow delivers a wake-up call to Mac users around the world about their security complacence. There is a common belief amongst many users of Apple products that they don’t need to worry about viruses, hacking, or cybersecurity. The belief is that Apple’s ‘walled garden’ is so secure and so powerful that any threats to
While the cybersecurity industry was still coming to terms with the size and the sheer audacity of the Solarwinds hack, another damaging hack was brewing that is generating shockwaves all around the world. It began on the second of March when Microsoft discovered a vulnerability in its email servers which had given hackers the opportunity
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While working from home is the safest way to make sure you avoid the coronavirus, the same can’t be said for the safety of your data, or your company’s online security systems. The sudden surge in remote work all over the world has left networks, servers, and cloud services more vulnerable than ever, and it
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Spare a thought for the owners of a British company who logged in to their systems one morning in early February to discover that none of their files and systems were accessible. Instead, there was a message telling them that they needed to pay a ransom in Bitcoin in order to access a key that
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