The Insider Threat

A SANS survey, run between June and August 2017, has shown that ransomware, insider threats and Denial of Service attacks are considered the top three cyber security threats faced by organisations and the insider threat can be considered to be the main security threat in 2017. Well trained employees should be the first line of […]

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DDoS attacks

A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is when the cyber-criminal uses many unique IP addresses, flooding the target with incoming traffic. The first Denial of Service attack was demonstrated in 1997 during a DEF Con event in Las Vegas, disrupting internet access to the Las Vegas strip for over an hour. The following year […]

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Malvertising – the “hidden” threat

The following article is the sixth of a series of articles on Cyber Attacks and focuses on Malvertising   Malvertising, also known as malicious advertising, is a scam that takes advantage of online advertising in order to distribute malware to users’ devices with little or no interaction by them; first recorded in early 2008, it has become […]

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