Category: <span>Cyber security</span>

Black Friday falls on Friday, November 25 this year. One of the USA’s most recent exports, it’s now unofficially the start of the Christmas shopping period.

Never ones to miss out on a marketing opportunity, most big retailers now offer deals right throughout November. There are some great bargains to be had – tech bargains in particular – but it’s also open season for online scammers. It seems that fake websites are a particular problem, with an estimated 18,000 being created every day.

Here’s how to make sure you steer clear of online scams this Black Friday and beyond.

Paying the ransom is still the most common response to a ransomware attack. Although progress has been made, organisations are still paying out. Here’s more on ransomware attacks following new research from Databarracks.

Phone scams have been going for years but, as with all fraud, scammers are thinking up new ways to get people to part with their money. New research from Bionic, the business essentials experts, has revealed which areas of the UK were being targeted with phone scams most frequently over the last 13 months. 

Let’s take a look at what they found and what are currently the most popular types of phone scams.

No one is safe from hackers, and a new study from Security HQ has found that cyber criminals are now targeting the legal sector.

Out of 40 practices investigated, ‘75% reported having been the victims of a cyber-attack’ and for ‘23 of those that were directly targeted, over £4m of client money was stolen’. What makes this worse is that ‘Half of the firms were found to have allowed unrestricted use of external data storage media.’ reports the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Report. 

Find out more.

Hackers are constantly evolving the way they operate, which means cyber attacks are getting more and more difficult to identify and prevent.

At the same time, more and more of us are accessing sensitive personal and financial information across a number of devices, often storing passwords and even banking details for greater convenience and quicker access.

The trouble is, the more devices we store data on, the greater the chances of being hacked. Data breaches are common and increasing, even on seemingly secure platforms. Here are 10 steps you can take to keep your data as secure as possible.