Insight

This week sees us celebrate National Coding Week, an event designed to promote the vital role of coding and other digital skills in today’s connected world. Coding, and the languages it uses, provides the bedrock on which we’ve built our digital world – a world which has become even more integral to everyday life given this year’s events. Thanks to greater connectivity we’re all becoming digital natives. But this increasing connectivity also increases our vulnerability...

For us to begin, do me a favour and google search “hybrid attacks”. Cybrary defines a Hybrid attack as “a blend of both a dictionary attack method as well as brute force attack. This means that while a dictionary attack method would include a wordlist of passwords, the brute-force attack would be applied to each possible password in that list.” Do you agree? What does hybrid really mean when it comes to security? Physical, cyber,...

For millions, work used to be somewhere you go. Now it's something you do. From an IT point of view, being unable to control the security of the remote working environment is a significant concern. The employee now sits at home on their laptop, connecting to business servers and applications through virtual private networks, remote desktop or using the cloud. This is all within the control of the IT security team. However, what processes are...

Companies are under siege. With attackers growing ever more creative, many security vendors are assembling a laundry list of cybersecurity solutions in response. Businesses have at their fingertips a variety of vendors to choose from – each offering top-of-class solutions that should leave attackers ruing the day. But how do IT teams navigate the complex landscape of multiple vendors and tools? Even before the COVID-19 pandemic the enterprise cybersecurity landscape was dominated by chaos and...

Phishing and ransomware are inextricably linked. Phishing is the number one delivery mechanism for getting malicious exploits, including ransomware, into mobile devices. According to MobileIron’s latest research, 60% of IT decision makers agree that phishing is the most significant threat faced by their organisation. Advanced persistent threat actors are now chaining sophisticated exploits to not only grab user credentials, but also redirect victims to phishing websites where they could unknowingly download malware onto their mobile...

With data protection regulations evolving worldwide and the Brexit transition period ending in less than five months – impacting both the GDPR and DPA – now is the time for organisations to future-proof their communication security. Doing so will not only ensure continuous data privacy compliance, it will also help to avoid financial penalties through non-compliance, dissatisfied customers (leading to possible customer churn) and damaged reputation. A critical early step is to reduce, if not...

Data loss prevention (DLP) solutions have failed – but it’s an important truth that we need to accept.   Legacy DLP solutions have failed to stop data breaches from happening.  Why? Because they simply can’t cater to the changes that have happened over the last decade to the way sensitive data is created, stored and (most importantly) shared. These changes have introduced new risks that it’s impossible to properly mitigate using older, static DLP solutions. That’s because...

As people found solace within the safe boundaries of their homes after Coronavirus caused havoc worldwide, it was a time for hackers to be active. According to a report by NexusGuard, a whopping 542 percent  jump in DDoS attacks was reported in the first quarter of 2020 over the previous quarter. People were forced to work from home to stop the rise of the pandemic. As the reliance on remote services increased, hackers deemed it...

For many of us, the last time we were physically together in an office was in early March. That’s nearly half a year ago. In that time, we’ve battled with the challenges of remote working, the strain on the economy and the biggest challenge of all, the health implications of this pandemic. Perhaps a less obvious challenge that businesses have faced is the increased threat of cyberattacks. The cybersecurity landscape has shifted significantly over the...

by Ben Hartwig, web operations director at InfoTracer.  Account takeover (ATO) is a form of online identity theft that occurs when a fraudster gains unauthorised access to someone else’s account like a bank account, loyalty account, or e-commerce account, changes information such as login credentials or the email address associated with the account and then makes unauthorized transactions by using the hacked account. In the height of the COVID-19 crisis, all forms of fraud are...