It would appear as if cyber criminals have found a new way of scamming businesses and other unsuspecting victims out of hard-earned money. This new tactic involves the criminal emailing the users password to a certain email account and then creating a fake story on how they obtained the password. Usually explaining that they had […]
READ MOREStaying Safe Online
The hardest challenge a business faces is its security. All it takes is one employee to click one bad link and suddenly your data is being stolen or even worse! We take many steps to avoid this as keeping our data safe is our number one priority. We hope to share our knowledge on this […]
READ MOREMicrosoft Helps Teach Blind Children How to Code
Theo Holroyd, a pupil at king’s college school in Cambridge, loves nothing more than to code, but until now that has been particularly hard. Theo is blind and the coding program scratch, used at king’s college and across many other schools, just hasn’t worked for him. Scratch is a visual learning program that uses coloured […]
READ MORECyber resilience is in our sights – but there’s more to be done
by Ryan LaSalle, managing director of growth and strategy and cyber defence lead at Accenture Security for telegraph.co.uk It’s no time for complacency – but cyber resilience is on the horizon It’s a sad fact of life for those of us in cybersecurity that newsworthy security breaches are now almost a weekly occurrence. The surprisingly good […]
READ MOREGDPR – 1 Month To Go
What is GDPR? The General Data Protection Regulation(GDPR) will be replacing both the Data Protection Act and Data Protection Directive, to have one regulation for all organisations to follow. GDPR was made law on the 27th April 2016 and will be enforced from the 25th May 2018. The aim is to reduce confusion and ensure […]
READ MOREHow hard is it to be a Cyber Criminal?
Not very is the answer… Just £11.00 buys you a highly effective and pretty much untraceable Cyber Attack on the bank, business or web service of your choice, as this BBC article spells out: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43893420 You don’t even have to be clever, as the provider has done all the hard work for you! How […]
READ MOREMalware – The Real Threat…
Malware is by far the biggest threat to your business when connecting to or browsing the internet. It makes newspaper headlines every day, so you would think that users would adapt to stay safe on-line, but they are failing to even follow the basics to protect themselves. Just visiting one of the 35 Million malicious […]
READ MORECryptocurrency Twitter Scam
Scammers impersonating tech billionaire, Elon Musk, and inventor of the Ethereum cryptocurrency, Vitalik Buterin, have stolen thousands of pounds from Twitter users. Cryptocurrency is big business. You’ve likely heard of Bitcoin and its meteoric rise in value, followed shortly by its gradual decline. There is so much potential money in cryptocurrency that they are a […]
READ MOREYou can never be 100% sure about Cyber Security – actually you can!
Everyone says you can never be 100% cyber secure, but a new study from AV-Comparatives on ESETs Android Mobile Security shows you can. ESET Mobile Security detects 100% of malware in latest tests. In the most recent Android security test from AV-comparatives, ESET scored 100%, not missing any malware or reporting any false positives. AV-comparatives […]
READ MORE70 Days until GDPR becomes law…
70 x Days until your business must comply with new Europe wide General Data Protection Regulation 70 x Days until the Information Commissioners Office can require your business to demonstrate its compliance 70 x Days until the fines for non-compliance or Data loss jump 40 x fold The ICO and the Government are absolutely serious […]
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