Cyber Attack
The Severity of Cyber Contagion
Research suggests that up to 90% of Small and Medium sized companies in France, Spain, Germany and Italy are hit by a cyber-attack at least once a year. The impacts and consequences are dependent on the type of attack; however, Business Email Compromise and Ransomware attacks are thought to make up a large proportion of …
Hacked off: the rise of ransoms for ransomware
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Russia: a difficult bear to lure
The laziness of hackers is making them smarter. Technological advance is offering new techniques to malign actors and honeypots provide the opportunity to observe how hackers operate. In new types of attack the “dirty work” is carried out by the machine drastically cutting human involvement and time. What it is worrying is not only that …
Is your data secure? Mossack Fonseca, a lesson learnt
The closing down of the law firm Mossack Fonseca is only few days away. The firm has in fact announced that it will terminate its operations at the end of the month, after more than 40 years of service. The decision came after irreparable damage was inflicted on the firm as a result of the …
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Cambridge Over Troubled Waters
The Cambridge Analytica saga has confirmed, as if further evidence was needed, that your data is less secure than ever. Whether there was genuine loss of oversight or deliberate malfeasance, the hard truth is that millions of people – and billions of relationships – were used illicitly, and that this is not likely to be …
The cyber threat: a matter of compliance
2018 is the year of cyber. In spring two important pieces of EU legislation will come into force: the Network Information System (NIS) Directive and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Failure to comply with the requirements will impose heavy fines on businesses. Therefore, the government is stepping up against the cyber threat in legal …
Play Up, Play Up, And Play The Great Game
The drones of today can be applied to many purposes. Surveillance footage of a suspected terrorist hideout? Certainly. Delivery of online shopping purchases? If you like. Finding out whether the big game formation will be 4-4-2 again? Hang about… At the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, headlines were briefly made when the French national team …
Hide and Seek
It has been well reported that the human factor is often the weakest link in cyber security. Even the most advanced systems are susceptible to human error. According to Kaspersky, which utilised the B2B international market research company to scrutinise 5,000 companies across the globe, the results stated that “Fifty-two percent of businesses admit that …
WannaCry: The Fallout Continues
The sheer scale of the cyber-attack that took place on Friday the 12th, which affected 150 countries, is unprecedented. Companies are still working to ensure their protection from the ransomware. The ransomware utilised over the weekend is called WannaCry, which is designed to spread quickly from a single machine across an entire network, allowing for …