Luke Vile – our Cyber Security Operations Director has been featured in The Telegraph. He was speaking to Oliver Pickup, Telegraph journalist. The article content is included below. Do staff have too much data access and what should a company do if a breach has been detected? How securely are today’s businesses treating all […]
If you managed to grab The Times today you will see that our Director, Luke Vile, commented on an article discussing big data/tech firms and Government regulation. Full text as follows: In August, Ms Rudd was dispatched to Silicon Valley, where the biggest tech giants roam, and attended the inaugural meeting of the Global Internet
Another day, another data breach and yet another apology. After hackers stole private data of Equifax’s 143 million customers (including data from 400,000 UK residents), their new CEO Paulino do Rego Barros Jr, wrote an open letter that was published by the Wall Street Journal on 27 September. “On behalf of Equifax, I want to express my sincere
Don’t use the Equifax example: How you SHOULD communicate a data breach Read More »
It’s not easy to admit to getting it wrong, but that’s what Bill Burr did in a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal. Back in 2003, as an advisor for the American National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Burr recommended irregular capitalisation, special characters and numerals in our passwords; such as wHyWeN3edP4s5w0rd5. Burr
Expert admits that his password advice was wrong. So how should you choose a password? Read More »
CIFAS, the Fraud Prevention organisation, has revealed that numbers of young identity fraud victims (those aged 30 and under) have increased by a staggering 52% since 2015. The survey also revealed that 50% of the young people surveyed believed they would never fall for an online scam. Why are young people so blasé about identity
Why are young people failing to protect themselves against identity fraud? Read More »
Google users appear to have been the latest victims of the most recent phishing attack, this time through their file sharing Google Docs service. Victims were sent a sinister email disguised as a fraudulent invitation to edit a Google Doc that appears to come from one of their contacts. The subject line reads “[Contact name]
Remember that $100 million whaling scam? Read More »
Last month, the papers reported that two major US technology firms were deceived by Evaldas Rimasauskas, a Lithuanian criminal, into sending him $100 million through an email whaling scam. It has just been confirmed that Google and Facebook were the two companies that were the victims of this scam. The two companies did not confirm
$100 million whaling scam: A “wake up call” for even the most sophisticated firms. Read More »
The latest Government report on UK business cyber security has landed, and it does not make pleasant reading. The Cyber Breaches Survey is part of the Government’s five-year National Cyber Security Strategy to transform the UK’s cyber security and to protect businesses online. The depressing bit… The report reveals that almost half of UK firms (46%)
Almost half of UK firms hit by cyber breach or attack in the past year Read More »
We sometimes suffer from deja-vu here in the 2-sec office. Whilst rifling through dusty filing cabinets in our annual spring clean, we rediscovered an article from the last quarter of 2016. The article was headlined with the title, “UK SMEs have a False Sense of Cyber Security”. We had to re-examine the story to check
How will GDPR affect small business owners? Read More »
