In the King’s Speech introduced by the new UK government in July 2024, the UK Cyber Security & Resilience Bill was one of two pieces of legislation introduced to strengthen the UK’s cyber defences. This bill is part of the UK's broader strategy to bolster national security against cyber threats and follows legislation brought [...]
We recently wrote about the increase in ‘supply chain cyber attacks’ and how the UK and EU governments are terrified about their impact on the economy. If you are a professional services firm, you may be the target of a ‘supply chain attack’ with cyber criminals looking to use data you hold to run [...]
We recently wrote about the increase in ‘supply chain cyber attacks’ and how the UK and EU governments are terrified about their impact on the economy. This has been on the radar of larger businesses for some time, but now many firms in the SME sector are waking up to the potential threats from [...]
The UK government has identified supply chain security as being a key risk to the UK economy. As reported by the National Cyber Security Centre, cyber-attacks launched on businesses via their suppliers have significantly increased, but very few businesses still review the cyber security of their suppliers. Why are supply chain attacks growing: Large [...]
Due to the conflict in Ukraine the government, the ICO and UK cyber experts generally are all urging SMEs to act against increased cybersecurity threats. The situation in Ukraine poses an increased risk of cyber attacks to businesses and exacerbates the rise in cybercrime seen throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, partly due to cyber criminals exploiting [...]
If you have a mobile phone which you use for business do you wonder about mobile device security? Do you have any idea which of your staff have company data on their personal phones and whether it’s password protected? What happens if your device has confidential data on it and you lose it or it’s [...]
Following a wave of Office 365 attacks, compromising passwords, most organisations have now accepted that multifactor authentication is essential and have it in place. As a result, they may feel much safer, but as ever the criminals are one step ahead. A new form of very dangerous Office 365 attack, known as ‘Illicit Consent’ has [...]
Not many businesses or organisations can turn the sign on the door to ‘closed’, switch off the lights and forget about work until the following morning. In today’s world most business need to be ‘always on’, even when their business premises are locked up for the night. Other businesses are operating 24/7 anyway, with global [...]
Having read with interest a BBC article about the continued growth in the use of banking apps versus the ongoing decline in the use of web-based banking facilities, I started to wonder what this trend meant in terms of personal information security as well as any known effects on business. This could become increasingly relevant if the concept of [...]
Security experts are warning businesses of a dangerous new virus, based on the Locky ransomware, named Klepto Zepto. The Zepto malware has been carried in nearly 140,000 spam messages sent over four days last week. The ransomware appears to have Locky’s capabilities which could make it one of the more dangerous encryption lockers in circulation. [...]
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