Everyone gets phishing emails. Unfortunately they’re everywhere. Most get filtered through to your junk folder or caught before they are even delivered, but some still get through. But what they are and how they work isn’t always clear. Here we’ll try to de-mystify an all too common and potentially dangerous nuisance.
A strong password is essential for preventing others from gaining unauthorised access to your account or device. The stronger the password the more difficult it will be for a hacker to crack.
It can be hard to think of a password that you can remember when you need it, let alone multiple passwords and variations. What can make this is easier is using a methodology or naming convention for your passwords.
Protecting your sensitive data with a password seems like a good thing to do, right? So why would we say it is not a good idea? Because protecting the location is better than protecting the document.
What is the future for GDPR in the UK once the country has completed its transition out of the EU by the end of 2020?
By the end of 2019, cyber-attacks and technology-enabled scams against small businesses were soaring off the scale.
Why?
The answer is sadly straightforward: the attacks are working. That is, they’re delivering lucrative returns on investments.
In our previous post on how to spot a fake email, we covered some easy ways to identify the spams, scams and spoofs that inevitably land in your inbox.
But it’s not easy to write one post covering everything. And it’s not uncommon for us to receive a few reports a day from our clients of scamming. There’s a lot of it out there, much of it increasingly hard to identify.
That’s why we’re going to break it down further today and take you through the anatomy of a scam email.
As we move increasingly towards online services, securing your account is more important than ever.
While computer viruses still exist, they’re no longer the route of choice for hackers to get control of your data. Instead, the prevalence of online services means that the bad guys are targeting your cloud services, such as your email and file storage.
What on earth is this one about, I hear you ask? The Internet Of Things, that’s what; those millions of things that connect to the internet, like your home central heating, your toaster, webcams, children’s toys and yes, even fish tanks, allowing them to send you messages and alerts, or to be controlled and managed from your smartphone.
Surfing the web in private is a minefield.
Everywhere you go, something is watching you, tracking your search results and the pages you visit.
And more often than not the goal is to target you with advertising based on the things that you’re probably interested in (probable because hey, that’s what you’ve been looking at isn’t it?)
At first glance the answer is obvious. No, of course we should never share our passwords, why would we?
I agree and yet, here’s an oddity: we often encounter small companies where password sharing is common. It may not be obvious at first but with a little digging the practice turns out to be the norm.
In fact, anecdotally, I would say offices in which some degree of password sharing goes on are more common than those that absolutely ban it.
For some companies, Cyber Essentials or Cyber Essentials Plus certification is a must-have. Usually this is because their position in the supply chain — e.g.
Everybody hates cables, let’s face it. They look messy, they get tangled up, it’s hard to clean around them, and you always end up with
Aiming for watertight IT security is a tall order. If organisations like the German Parliament, British Airways or Ticketmaster can’t get it right, what hope
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