The importance of cybersecurity can never be properly justified. When it comes to protecting your business and the data that you have stored, it is important that you do everything you can to prevent cybercriminals from attacking. Research shows that more than half of board members recognise that cyber security threats are a top risk…
A recent study shows that businesses that run older versions of operating systems and web browsers are more likely to fall victim to data breaches than those who update their software regularly. BitSight, a security ratings company, found that 2,000 firms out of 35,000 from over 20 different industries were running on operating systems that…
Cyber crime is constantly changing within the IT sector as new ways of getting exploited are happening and re-occuring all the time. To keep yourself protected, be sure to beware of these five cyber-security traps: – Ransomware. This is in the form of computer viruses that threaten to delete important data from a company unless…
Backing up your data is critical for any business. Would your business be able to continue running if it suffered a loss of data? Downtime and data loss can have a substantial cost to your business both financially and to your reputation, highlighting the importance of your business being prepared for such catastrophe. It is…
A firewall is a piece of software or hardware that helps to screen out cyber criminals, hackers, malware and viruses that are trying to reach your computer via the internet. It is a network security device that manages and controls both incoming and outgoing network traffic, deciding whether to allow or block specific traffic based…
Phishing is the attempt to obtain sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details often for malicious reasons. Although this is usually done by cyber-criminals via email, it is now starting to occur on LinkedIn as well. A recent attack on the social media platform shows cyber-criminals have been using existing LinkedIn user…
Although passwords seem like a basic part of IT, they are still proving to be a huge security risk. Many still use very simple and mainstream passwords and are using them across several accounts, which makes them the ideal target for hackers. With functions and software like Keychain a password management system in macOS developed…
Cybersecurity is the body of technologies, processes and practices designed to protect devices and reduce the risk of attacks, damage or unauthorized access to our personal data that we store on certain devices and online. Cybersecurity is more important now than ever before because phones, tablets, computers, the internet, online banking, emails and social media…
This may sound far-fetched but it happened recently in the US. A former IT manager of Smart Online, a company creating mobile Apps, left the company and then sent damaging computer code causing $5,000 worth of damage to computers. The code also deleted much of the company’s intellectual property. He will be sentenced in December…
Do you regularly back up your data? We hope so, because there are some nasty viruses out there, finding new and innovative ways to encrypt your data. If you don’t back up your data then a vicious virus may put a halt to your business. CryptoLocker was, and still is, a ransomware Trojan. It targets…