THE DEVASTATING DANGER OF A RANSOMWARE ATTACK.
Spare a thought for the owners of a British company who logged in to their systems one morning in early February to discover that none of their files and systems were accessible. Instead, there was a message telling them that they needed to pay a ransom in Bitcoin in...
How do I make sure my business is cyber protected?
Cyber security is a topic on every organisation’s radar. The continued threat of ever evolving cyber-attacks, combined with the introduction of GDPR compliance means that there are serious businesses implications to successful attacks and the loss of data to any...
Cryptojacking: the new malware threat
The recent report from Fortinet on the security threat landscape in the last quarter of 2017, confirmed that cryptojacking attacks have risen sharply in the last 6 months. What is Cryptojacking? Cryptojacking is a tool used to mine digital coinage such as...
Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities – essential information
You may have read reports online of two major flaws in a large number of microprocessors: Spectre and Meltdown. Spectre and Meltdown relate to an apparent vulnerability in chips which may allow the breaking of isolation between programs and operating systems. Whilst...