Understanding a hacker’s motive to plan for the future. Questions to ask your IT and security managers. In the wake of a cyberattack, police investigators will always try to identify the motive of a cyber-criminal. This helps them both detect and prevent cyber crimes in the future. Understanding the hacker’s motive behind your adversary’s action will...
Insider threats are people who work for the organisation itself. This could be anyone who has access to an IT system. This includes: Regular employees Privileged IT users/admins Senior directors and executives Onsite contractors and temporary workers External service providers with internal access Customers and visiting guests Many cyber security threats will come from the...
Every organisation in the UK faces the difficult challenge of mitigating against the ever-increasing risks associated with cybercrime. But what are the facts? Below are 10 quick facts from trusted sources* to give you a heads up of the cyber security statistics for 2019. 48% of UK businesses identified at least one breach or...
How to recognise a phishing email scam The Global Information Security Survey 2018-2019 has reported that scammers send out 6,4 billion fake emails every day. With the risk of phishing scams becoming increasingly more common, how can you recognise what’s a scam and what’s not? Check the sender address Who has the email come from? Phishing scams...
Improve Office 365 Cyber Security with Real time monitoring As Office 365 and other cloud services extend the security perimeter to the individual user, it’s a challenge to identify intruders moving across the on premise, cloud, and mobile sections of your network ecosystem. By using stolen credentials, the number one attack vector behind breaches, attackers can remain...
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...
The first half of 2018 has seen a 94% increase in the number of fileless cyber attacks on global companies who use the endpoint detection and response (EDR) services of SentinelOne. The latest SentinelOne Enterprise Risk Index Report identifies that fileless attacks using PowerShell increased to a record 5.2 attacks per 1000 endpoints in June. Ransomware attacks...
The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) of the FBI is reporting that email-based social engineering attacks were the most commonly reported cybercrime category in the US in 2017. Business e-mail compromise (fake CEO attack) and fake investment scams targeting companies and not for profit organisations resulted in an estimated loss of over $676 million dollars. ...
Researchers from Check Point Software have announced at DEF CON 26 that fax machines can be easily used by cyber attackers to breach an IT system. In this age of advanced cyber attack methodologies, it is ironic to be reminded of a wide-spread security vulnerability in a digital technology that’s been used in offices since 1980! Yaniv...
As a regular commentator on the cyber security industry, I am frequently surprised at the seeming lack of understanding of what cyber security is and how it can be used by an organisation to truly mitigate the growing risk of cyber attack. This is often demonstrated by the incorrect (and annoying) use of the terms,...
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has published its first report into the cyber threat to UK law firms. The highlights of this document were presented at the UK Legal Sector Breakfast Briefing on the 19th July. Ciaran Martin, Chief Executive Officer NCSC, confirmed, “Like all businesses, law firms are increasingly reliant on IT and technology and are...
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