Monthly Archive: June 2020

Phishing in Micro and Small Businesses

Of all the cyber risks a business will face, phishing (the act of social engineering through malicious emails) has to be one of the greatest. If you go looking for information about how to defend yourself or your organisation, there’s no shortage of good information on the Internet, but what if you’re a sole trader, or you only employ a couple of people? Suddenly there’s a lot less guidance, which doesn’t help when you’re now in the position of having to both be phish aware, and know what to do to defend yourself. Phishing fact and fiction Here are six…
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Getting value from threat intelligence

Whether you run a security function, manage systems, or perhaps run a organisation in its entirety, a key responsibility is being aware of threats to your organisation. If your company uses IT, then information security risks should be considered as one of the most critical to your organisation. Dealing with these risks requires you to know they exist, and this is where threat intelligence is used. However, if you’re not careful, you’ll be staring at a mountain of technical, potentially conflicting, and useless information that will do nothing to make your organisation more secure. Larger organisations that have IT departments,…
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More thoughts on the Easyjet breach

You can find a link to the initial article here Over a fortnight on from the public announcement that Easyjet had the details of 9 million customers lost, along with the payment card details of a further 2200, things haven’t been getting much better for the beleaguered airline. Of immediate priority is that they are now looking at a class-action lawsuit with a headline figure of £18 billion, or £2,000 per person that had their details stolen. Pragmatically the figure that end up being settled on will be much lower, but still significant, both in financial costs and as a…
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