Cybersecurity Expert

Today I was quoted in the  Focus Training's Blog . An 'Ask the Experts' piece on 'How to Protect your business from Cyber Crime', my advice was as follows. Educate all business staff about dangers and latest attack methods, particularly ensuring they aware of targeted scam emails (spear phishing). Cyber criminals are increasingly targeting individual business staff members, typically those with finance responsibilities, by crafting highly convincing emails using information about the business, its staff and its suppliers. These scam emails once responded to, will typically try to convince (social engineer) individual staff members to arrange a bank transfer or payment to a bogus account operated by the cyber criminals Keep all Servers, PCs, Laptops, Tablets and Smart Phones operating systems and applications updated (security patching). Out of date software is vulnerable and commonly exploited by malware and hackers. Business staff should use unique passwords wi...

UK identity fraud is on the rise according to the latest research by Equifax. The data shows UK ID crime is going up within all age groups, with those living in the London and Manchester areas increasingly the most likely to become victims of ID fraud. Equifax has asked me to share the following infographic on their research, which includes good advice to stay protected. Are you losing your identity? We look at the growth of identity fraud and what can be done about it

Just over three months ago I posted about  Yahoo, The Largest Data Breach in History...so far . It was apt I added "so far" in the post title as in the early hours today, Yahoo announced an even more mind-blowing data theft hack of over One Billion Yahoo user accounts. If you are a concerned Yahoo email account holder 1. Reset your Yahoo account password, make sure your old Yahoo passwords are not used on any other of your online accounts 2. Change your Security Questions and Answers on all accounts with same Q&A as Yahoo, you might have to make up false answers only you know to ensure safety 3. Be extra vigilant, especially with signs of any access to your email account, and receiving scam phishing emails 4. See  My advice to Stay Safe from Cyber Crime Mark Crowther, Associate Director at Cyber Security Specialists Cyberis ( www.cyberis.co.uk ),   has some interesting thoughts on the latest breach at Yahoo, raising serious questions about...

Several major UK household brands made the headlines for wrong reasons following cyber attacks in October. Tesco Bank refunded £2.5 million to over 20,000 of its customers after Tesco Bank account credentials were hacked and account funds were stolen. Mobile giant ‘Three’ said 6 million of its customer’s personal data records could be at risk after hundreds of new mobile phones were stolen following the hack of a Three employee account. The National Lottery disclosed 26,500 of its online customer accounts had been accessed by hackers, leading to three arrests. Elsewhere a 17 year old pleaded guilty to taking part in the recent TalkTalk hack. The next evolution of ransomware has arrived with a new variant called Ransoc, and it's pretty nasty. The malware scans internet history, social media accounts, Skype and photos, and then uses any found illegal, embarrassing and sensitive information to threaten the victim’s reputation should a payment not be sent.  It turns out locked...