Four years after Cyber Essentials was first launched, only nine per cent of UK businesses are aware of the government’s flagship cyber security scheme. The Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2018 confirms that despite over four in ten firms experiencing a cyber breach, the awareness of Cyber Essentials is at its lowest level since 2015. Looking at the...
The IT industry has hailed Blockchain as a game changer in the development of ‘hyper-secure’ cyber security solutions for the future. What is Blockchain technology and why is this 10-year old transactions management system at the heart of a cyber security revolution? What is Blockchain? Blockchain was invented by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008 to serve as...
Emotet has been named as one of the next-generation malware stars of 2018 in the Malwarebytes report, ‘Under the Radar – The Future of Undetected Malware’. Emotet has been terrorising systems worldwide for much of the year, with large campaigns reported in both Q1 and Q3 of 2018. Between January and September 2018, it was detected...
Wizard Cyber is now an industry member of the UK Government Cyber Security Information Sharing Partnership (CiSP). Managed by the National Cyber Security Centre, CiSP is a joint industry and government initiative that aims to increase the situational awareness of cyber threats. It is also designed to help reduce the impact of cyber crime on UK businesses of...
The giant Marriott Hotels chain has confirmed a data security incident that may have resulted in the loss of confidential information of up to 500 million guests. In a remarkably low-key news announcement, the company confirmed that the security breach of its Starwood reservation database has been on-going for a period of four years. 500...
Cyber security service providers will always recommend penetration testing to their new customers. While they are an essential part of a cyber security audit process, penetration tests are often misunderstood both by those who buy them and sometimes by those who deliver them. Why are cyber security audits so important? Cyber security assessment provides an independent...
Effective and well-managed patch management has always been an essential element of any cyber security programme. The Gartner report, ‘Focus on the Biggest Security Threats” estimated that 99.96 of all cyber threats in 2017 were based on known software vulnerabilities. Despite their importance, many organisations still struggle to keep their operating systems and core business software applications...
Ransomware cyber attacks are moving on from their indiscriminate wide-scale deployment in the last two years to a more targeted approach in 2018. The NCSC Advisory Report: Ongoing threat to organisations from ransomware, confirms that this type of cyber attack was previously profitable because of its economy of scale. In 2017, cyber criminals were successful by...
Research by Metric Labs Top10VPN has confirmed that over 50% of the most popular free personal VPN (Virtual Private Network) services are run by secretive companies based in China. With unacceptable privacy policies and a lack of accountability, the report strongly advises individuals not to trust these services to protect their internet privacy. VPN is one...
Tesco Personal Finance plc (Tesco Bank) has been fined £16,400,000 by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for failing to exercise due skill, care and diligence in protecting its personal current account holders against a cyber attack in 2016. Deficient cyber security controls On the 1st October, the FCA announced that in 2016, cyber attackers exploited deficiencies in...
The Domain Name System (DNS) has been an essential component of the functionality of the Internet since 1985. This remarkable technology enables internet services and the World Wide Web to be globally available to billions of users. DNS acts as the ‘internet phone book’ by providing a worldwide, distributed directory service. Developed by John Postel and Paul Mockapetris as...
Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) cyber attacks remain a significant threat to any organisation that uses a web site or web application to deliver its services. The Arbor Networks 2018 Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report confirms that a total of 7.5 million DDoS attacks were executed in 2017. Using survey data from internet service providers, they estimate that 57% of...
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