Throughout the recent developments, the team at borwell and cybx have been hard at work ensuring appropriate business continuity and resilience are in place to facilitate remote working capabilities while keeping business as close to usual as possible. As part of this, we are sharing some of the best tips to make sure that you[…]
A policy contains numerous ideas or a plan of what should be done in certain situations. Businesses generally have policies relating to HR and finance but are lacking in security policies. An information security policy is used to describe a set of rules, inclusive of allowed and disallowed behaviour for its information systems and assets[…]
A rubber ducky looks like a normal USB stick but can be used for malicious purposes by threat actors. A Rubber Ducky can be used to conduct various tasks such as obtain passwords as well as transfer files between machines to further compromise your laptop/desktop. Even if USB devices are blocked on the computer, a[…]
The Equifax breach in which 143 million Americans had their Social Security numbers and home addresses exposed was caused by a vulnerability that had been publicly disclosed 2 months prior. Updates in software occur to fix various issues, inclusive of security vulnerabilities and updates should be performed as soon as possible from their release date.[…]
Its a new year, which means more innovation and technology and threats to come.Therefore it is a good time to have a look at what to expect from Cyber Security in 2020. Ransomware will continue to be on a rapid increase, with exploitation becoming more complex to evade detection, making it more difficult to reverse,[…]
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[…]
Denial of service is a well-recognised and notorious attack, designed to target either an individual or a business to overload their infrastructure. This article will provide an overview for denial of service attacks, how they are performed and some techniques that attackers use to pass by undetected. With a standard denial of service attack, the[…]