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Health insurance company BUPA has been hitting the headlines over the past year or so due a significant data breach that took place in early 2017.
Between January 6th – March 11th 2017, an employee managed to access their customer relationship management system (SWAN), and extract credentials of 547,000 global customers.
more →We recently looked at the many types of hackers, but now we take a closer look at which of hacker tends to perpetrate DDoS attacks and why they use this method.
DDoS attacks are one of the oldest types of cyberattacks, but they have still seen a massive growth recently.
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A breach detection system (BDS) is a defensive tool designed to detect the activity of malware inside a network after a breach has occurred. A BDS can be either a hardware or software solution designed to look out for signs of threats and alert the organization to the potentially dangerous activity.
more →In the simplest terms hacking generally refers to unauthorised intrusion into a computer or a network. The person (or persons) engaged in hacking activities is known as a hacker. This hacker may alter system or security features to accomplish a goal that differs from its original purpose. There is a common misconception that your average hacker is a young person in a hoodie holed up in his parent’s basement.
more →Thursday, 9:31am
For Elliot Wicks, IT Manager at top UK wig retailer Hairy Mary, it’s just another Thursday. The sun is shining outside the office in central Manchester, the smell of coffee wafts through the air, life is good.
All of a sudden, Elliot receives hundreds of error messages popping up on his screen.
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In this 2-part blog Information Security veteran Max Pritchard looks back on the data breach at credit reference agency, Equifax, examines the events that led up to the breach, and the company’s actions during and immediately after the breach. See part 2 for where we are a year after the breach and discover what we can learn from it.
more →2018 was a big year for cybersecurity, with increased usage in areas such as cloud adoption, AI and a move away from perimeter-based security systems. 2019 looks set to be an equally important year so we thought we would look ahead to what we think will be at the forefront in the next 12 months and list our 2019 Cybersecurity Predictions.
more →We were very pleased to use activereach and would not hesitate to use them again. Their implementation of a VPN solution required an understanding of our existing network, remote configuration of our equipment and the creation of a secure VPN.
Their technical understanding of our requirements allowed the work to be done efficiently and on schedule. This meant that we could concentrate on our own core business; secure in the knowledge that the VPN was correctly setup.
61% of organisations had found that one infected user had spread a virus to others via email.
Source: Mimecast Report – The State of Email Security 2018
Solution: Cybersecurity training and anti-phishing systems can help toughen up your "human firewall".
