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 […]
Why a Cyber Aware staff can be the first layer of protection for your business
There is little doubt that the threat of cyber-attack is one of the largest business risks of the current age. Not only have large organisations such as the NHS and Equifax become high profile victims of cyber-attacks, but there is a general increase in cyber threats at all levels of business – over half […]
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 […]
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 […]