Happy Computer Security Day! Since its inception in 1988, Computer Security Day has been celebrated annually on the 30th of November, but we'll forgive you if you’ve never heard of it. ...Continue Reading: Every day should be Computer Security day
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Despite attempts to improve the general understanding of IT threats, the education sector is more at risk of attack than ever before...Continue Reading: C+ ‘Must try harder: Cybersecurity in Education
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As long as there has been the exchange of money, there has always been fraud. From Hegestratos, the first recorded fraudster in 350 BC Ancient Greece, to Charles Ponzi’s infamous scheme of redistributing investments, to the present day, criminals have always tried to find new and more sophisticated ways to dupe people out of…
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The number of small businesses is growing. In fact, at the start of 2017, small businesses accounted for 99.3% of all private sector businesses. Yet, with this growth comes the risk of security breaches: these breaches aren’t limited to the major companies. The UK Government announced earlier this year that more than two in…
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In days gone by, when an organisation wanted to protect its cyber defences, the norm would be to bring in a cyber consultant or agency. Whether it was a someone-who-knew-someone-who-knew-someone kind of contact or an established name like Capita, they would act as the go-to source of cybersecurity knowledge and execute a strategy to…
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On Tuesday 24th of July 2018, Google took a big step towards making the internet more secure with their release of Chrome 68. It will now flag a warning to users when they visit a website that uses unencrypted HTTP instead of HTTPS. ...Continue Reading: How HTTPS made HTTP a thing of the past
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