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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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Another day, another data breach and yet another apology. After hackers stole private data of Equifax’s 143 million customers (including data from 400,000 UK residents), their new CEO Paulino do Rego Barros Jr, wrote an open letter that was published by the Wall Street Journal on 27 September. “On behalf of Equifax, I want to express my sincere
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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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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]
Remember that $100 million whaling scam? Read More »
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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