Preventing a data breach or hack is first prize for every cybersecurity company. But if and when an incident occurs, the way that the response is handled is so important to ensure a full and complete recovery for a business. That’s when the quality of your incident response plan is put to the test. […]
How Good is your Incident Response Plan in the Event of a Cyberattack? Read More »
On Friday 9thAugust 2019, it went dark across many parts of the UK. Train networks stopped and communters were facing an inability to get home due to hours of cancellations, described by Bloomberg as a ‘once-in-a-decade blackout’. The cause? A seemingly unlikely event where two power stations simultaneously went offline. Just a few minutes of
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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 programs typically cannot read data from other programs, a malicious program may be
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Alexander Drabek is part of our team of expert penetration testers; who “ethically hack” into client’s networks and find any potential weaknesses. We asked him exactly what it is he does, and how he does it. What skills do you need to become a penetration tester? Many people think penetration testers are highly obsessive and
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Only a month after WannaCry, a new malware attack is spreading like wildfire across Europe, India, Russia and is definitely heading towards America. A variant of the Petya/Petrwrap malware virus has already affected companies in Spain, France and the UK. Symantec has confirmed the ransomware is using EternalBlue, the same exploit as last month’s WannaCry
Ransomware has been a recognised issue for some time, however to date, perhaps only one or two systems in a company might have become infected by the wayward clicks of a bored receptionist. Ransomware has rarely been a business-critical issue. Wanna Cry changed that. Not only did it infect single machines, as classic ransomware does,
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Google users appear to have been the latest victims of the most recent phishing attack, this time through their file sharing Google Docs service. Victims were sent a sinister email disguised as a fraudulent invitation to edit a Google Doc that appears to come from one of their contacts. The subject line reads “[Contact name]
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