Tim Holman is the President of ISSA-UK, as well as the CEO & Founder at cybersecurity firm 2-Sec. He started out doing OS/2 and LAN Server support for IBM in 1994 and spent a lot of time on online forums both learning and helping others. For those efforts, he was rewarded with the title of […]
2|SEC FOUNDER TIM HOLMAN TALKS PHISHING, EMPLOYEES AND THE IMPORTANCE OF MFA Read More »
The online landscape in 2021 is awash in criminals trying to steal valuable data and empty your bank accounts. Due to the fact that we are all spending more time online and working remotely, there are many more opportunities for fraudsters to try and take advantage, without the security blanket that working in an office
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As cyberthreats increase in the age of remote work, there is a need for increased awareness in businesses of all sizes. At the same time, new rules and regulations mean that compliance is also vital to any organisation that wishes to succeed. Many companies have taken on senior managers to look after their information security
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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
RaaS: The evolving threat of ransomware as a service should be seen as a big worry. Read More »
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
UK CYBERSECURITY INDUSTRY EXPERIENCING MASSIVE GROWTH Read More »
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
