Most organisations depend on suppliers to deliver services, systems and products. You probably have several suppliers; it is how we do business. Supply chains can be large and complex, involving many suppliers doing many different things. Effectively securing the supply chain can be hard because vulnerabilities can be inherent or introduced and exploited at any[…]
As cyber threats are ever increasing in complexity, intensity and frequency, we have compiled below our top 10 tips that every business can follow to help improve your cyber resilience. Passwords should be different for each account in order to avoid one cracked password compromising all accounts. Consider using a password management programme such as[…]
Social Engineering is becoming far more prevalent in recent years. The attacker can target a large number of individuals for a generic offer or a smaller subset of individuals with a very specific approach tailored on a per-person basis. The key difference between technical exploitation and social engineering is that, besides training, it is difficult[…]
A brand new, significantly changed operating system available now, but should you upgrade? Windows 11 was released in October of this year, and although it looks like a significant improvement in terms of user interface there are still reasons why you should potentially hold off on upgrading the operating system on your workplace computers. Moving[…]
With Black Friday and Cyber Monday going live this week we thought it would be useful to advise on the cashback prompts on various e-commerce websites such as Moonpig. Reported to have started earlier this year, various e-commerce websites have been troubling users with cashback offer popups during their shopping process. An example can be seen below: Many[…]
Job scams have seen a 300% rise in the last two years according to ActionFraud. This has resulted in over 700,000 jobseekers losing upwards of £500,000 through these scams. These job scams are being carried out by scammers creating fake job advertisements and web pages where they aim to steal personal information and money. Unfortunately,[…]
E-mails are a part of our everyday life, we use them to keep in contact with people all around the world, use them to monitor online shopping and much more. With an estimated 3.4 billion phishing e-mails sent per day and accounting for approximately 90% of all data breaches, security of e-mails is imperative to[…]