The internet has undoubtedly simplified our lives, of course, the reason we use things like Facebook Login is the convenience, both for the site developer and the end user.
The internet has undoubtedly simplified our lives, of course, the reason we use things like Facebook Login is the convenience, both for the site developer and the end user.

What is Social Engineering? Social engineering is a non-technical strategy cyber attackers use that relies heavily on human interaction and often involves tricking people into breaking standard security practices. The success of social engineering techniques depends on attackers’ ability to manipulate victims into performing certain actions or providing confidential information. Today, social engineering is recognized...

Of course, the best way to report SPAM/UCE is to report the offender to a RBL Realtime Blackhole List, a list of IP addresses whose owners refuse to stop the proliferation of spam.

CLTRe, a Norwegian security culture research company, recently released its Security Culture Report, which studied more than 10,000 employees across five verticals in two countries within the Nordics to determine how risk and security is understood and actioned. The more than 200-page report, which focuses on “insights into the human factor” and how attributes of security...

There is no question that the web has changed the way we do business and conduct our personal online presence . The power of high speed data calculations and instant communication have enabled incredible developments. The technical landscape has also developed the conditions for advanced means of sabotaging, stealing or otherwise exploiting others’ work. Information...

2016 has been a busy year for cyber criminals,with indications that there have been over 500 data breaches and more than 500 million records exposed up to today. This includes the disclosure of 500 million Yahoo accounts, 68 million Dropbox User records and 117 million user emails and password details at LinkedIn. Businesses have moral...
In January 2016 we wrote a blog post highlighting the lack of Continuous Development in Business Infrastructure , this was prompted by our experiences of going into organisations and finding unsupported, out of date servers and Operating Systems acting as the main backbone of the organisation! When an organisation has such a lack of understanding of the...

Targeted phishing emails and other online scams are increasing both in number and complexity. With the imminent arrival of the General Data Protection Regulation in May 2018, spotting the warning signs is more imperative than ever – and non-compliance is simply not an option. Criminals are now attempting cyberattacks through many different channels – phone,...

Debenhams said its Flowers website suffered a massive cyberattack compromising the personal and payment card details of up to 26,000 customers. The British retailer said hackers targeted Ecomnova, the third-party partner that operates Debenhams’ flower and gifting websites. The company said customers’ names, addresses, email addresses and passwords and payment card details were potentially accessed...

Google Docs users were hit by a widespread phishing attempt overnight, allowing a sophisticated attacker to obtain contact lists and access Gmail accounts to spread spam messages widely. The attack appears to have worked by tricking users into logging into their actual Google account, unusually – this appears to have been the real Google Log...