17 Feb 2022
Cyber Security? It’s essential
When you hear ‘cyber security’ you may start to nod off – unless you’re me! But the fact is cyber security is essential for business.
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10 Feb 2022
Don’t fall for a Tinder Swindler this Valentine’s Day
There are a few different names this blight goes by with 'Cat Phishing' and 'Romance Scams' being the most common. Let’s talk about what these are, how they work and how you could help yourself return those criminal Valentine’s to sender.
31 Jan 2022
How can your business cyber security be strengthened with OSINT?
OSINT is an acronym for Open Source Intelligence. Essentially gathering and using information freely scattered about the interweb. How could this help a business in terms of Cyber Security?
15 Dec 2021
Log4J vulnerability: What it is and what to do about it
There have been some interesting developments in the security world over the last few days which we wanted to make you aware of. A recent vulnerability was published in a Java based log processing tool (Log4J) which has been assigned the highest severity rating.
25 Oct 2021
Cyber Essentials: The security MOT
When you drive your car, you can trust that its safe because each year you go and get that all important MOT; checking that the tyres are legal, or the lights are working, nothings loose and about to fall apart. Guess what?! Cyber Essentials is sort of the same, but for cybersecurity!
25 Oct 2021
4 Oct 2021
Cybersecurity: Passwords
Have you ever wondered how to create complex passwords, then this is the tutorial for you!!
6 Jul 2021
Security in the hybrid workplace: what does good look like?
As the CORONApocalypse continues to fade and we all get back to whatever normal is, it's a good opportunity to look back at the changes we have made in the workplace over the last 12-16 months to keep our businesses going and ask ourselves, "is this good?".
14 Apr 2021
It’s time to get serious about Cybersecurity
We always talk about the technical elements of cybersecurity, what tools, software, and processes that you should use to protect your business. Cybersecurity and data protection (or the failure to truly consider this as an essential forethought) rather than an afterthought is by far of significance importance today.
15 Mar 2021
Microsoft email server hack. Is your business at risk?
We’re all aware that we need to be vigilant of our own cyber security and it goes without saying that this should be of paramount importance to any business. The news of the recent Microsoft hack is a stark reminder of just how vital it is to have cyber security monitoring in place.
19 Oct 2020
Cyber Security: Playing the Blame Game
I was talking with a colleague the other day about security breaches and in particular business email compromises. Just to set the scene, a business email compromise is where a criminal (or threat actor as they're called in the infosec world) gets in the middle of a chain of email communications to divert funds. There are several ways this can happen and I'll cover those as we go, but in this instance a user had received an email notifying them of a change of bank details so they could pay an outstanding invoice. The email came from a known contact and followed an existing thread.
9 Oct 2020
Common phishing types
Cybercrime is on the rise and the types of phishing scams are evolving, our ability to identify them has never been more important in both protecting ourselves, but also the organisations that we are part of. There are many types of phishing scams with many different tactics employed, in this article we look at some of the main phishing scams used by the criminals, the intent or nature them and advice on how to deal with them.
