How far would your competitors go to get hold of your intellectual property and trade secrets?
Around 65,000 attempts to hack small to medium-sized businesses occur in the UK every day, around 4,500 are successful. That equates to around 1.6 million of the 5.7 million small businesses in the UK per year. Small businesses are just...
Weekly attacks, hacks and breaches – 22/11/2019
50% of Public Sector IT chiefs reckon their data is less valuable than private-sector data, Disney blames past hacks on users accounts being sold online, an Android bug could allow hackers to view people through their phone cameras and in...
Weekly attacks, hacks and breaches – 29/11/2019
Black Friday = Hack Friday, $50,000,000 stolen from Crypto exchange and when is a cancelled account not a cancelled account? 24% phishing attack increase this week… The frenzy that is Black Friday (November…) is in full swing with estimates expecting that in...
Darknet
The Dark web and the unseen impact on organisations The phrase “Data is the new oil.” coined by mathematician Clive Humby back in 2006 is now more relevant than ever and with so much data being stored, managed and maintained...
We sent Condoms out to the owners of London Organisations
Kicking off 2020 we embarked on a risky marketing campaign to show business owners that their digital security is no different from the security of their offices, cars, homes or belongings. Let’s start with the perception of threats and how...
Weekly attacks, hacks and breaches – 13/12/2019
1&1 hit with £8,000,000 fine & Gambling definitely doesn’t pay for this chap. But first Santa is real?! ‘Tis the season for stuffing. Not the edible kind but the password kind. Amazon-owned Ring – a leading manufacturer of recording and...
Firms buy insurance in ‘mad panic’ as cyber attacks soar!
So many businesses are buying cyber insurance “in a mad panic”, warns Charl Van Der Walt of SecureData, a cyber-security company. Charl Van Der Walt With cyber-attacks increasing in frequency and severity, many companies are turning to insurance to cover...