Managing Risk

Expert admits that his password advice was wrong. So how should you choose a password?

It’s not easy to admit to getting it wrong, but that’s what Bill Burr did in a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal . Back in 2003, as an advisor for the American National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST ), Burr recommended irregular capitalisation, special characters and numerals in our passwords; such

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New Ransomware alert: Diablo6 and Mamba

A significant email-spam campaign has been observed over the past two days, distributing two new variants of the ‘Locky’ ransomware. At this stage the 2-sec team believes the ransomware to be similar to most other ransomware programs, in that it will encrypt files after a machine has been infected. This alert has been issued by

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Bored and distracted employees are your biggest security risk

Ever had days when you feel like time is standing still, and you spend most of the day staring at the clock? Us too. Especially in my first “proper” job working as a lowly BT data entry “administrator” in the early 1990s. (It paid just enough for the occasional curry and weekend pint). Nowadays I’m

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It’s happening again: a vicious malware attack is expanding across Europe, using the same tricks as WannaCry.

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

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Why are young people failing to protect themselves against identity fraud?

CIFAS, the Fraud Prevention organisation, has revealed that numbers of young identity fraud victims (those aged 30 and under) have increased by a staggering 52% since 2015. The survey also revealed that 50% of the young people surveyed believed they would never fall for an online scam. Why are young people so blasé about identity

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Does your board need a technical expert?

Imagine that a business wanted to outsource a particular business function, but no one on the Board of Directors had sufficient tech expertise to grasp why this might cause security issues.Investing in an upgraded network with a centralised administrator responsible for granting permission levels would resolve the problem, but the Board is reluctant to invest

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Wanna Cry. Our analysis.

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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How to increase your business resilience

Resilience is a buzz word in board rooms in the UK at the moment; but for a VERY good reason. Control Risks, the heavyweight global business risk consultancy, recently published a survey on the “The State of Enterprise Resilience” for 2016-17. [The State of Enterprise Resilience Survey 2016/7 – https://www.controlrisks.com/en/services/security-risk/the-state-of-enterprise-resilience-survey-2016-2017 ] They explain business resilience

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How will GDPR affect small business owners?

We sometimes suffer from deja-vu here in the 2-sec office. Whilst rifling through dusty filing cabinets in our annual spring clean, we rediscovered an article from the last quarter of 2016. The article was headlined with the title, “UK SMEs have a False Sense of Cyber Security”. We had to re-examine the story to check

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