Essential Security for SMB shared by Global Experts We have spoken with over 50 experts in the fields of IT Security, Law, Insurance, Business continuity as well as directly with some small businesses themselves to bring you the top 21’s advice and insights. This advice shows a number of key themes that align with expert …
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Our CEO Paul Byrne was interviewed by York Butter Factory Ventures on some simple tips for small businesses and startups to help them not get hacked. This is how small businesses move beyond the basics that banks and enterprise businesses used over 10 years ago such as anti-virus and firewalls. These are a great complement to the layers of …
We are seeing our customers experience malware (Malicious software like Ransomware or Banking Trojans) that is continuing to bypass their antivirus software (see why in our blog on “Why antivirus fails“). One of the reasons is that criminals are very open to sharing the techniques and tools they use to get past traditional security controls such as antivirus …
The ongoing controversy of the US election and the proliferation of fake news on platforms such as Facebook continues. Now we are discovering a Cyber Security and privacy slant, where a UK company, who specialise in changing audience behaviour has been found to be abusing Facebook’s API. This resulted in Cambridge Analytica gaining access to 50 million user …
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There is an ongoing challenge for online businesses who depend on website ads for revenue with users being told to protect themselves from malicious websites through using Adblockers. Remote scripts have become a valuable tool for delivering ads to websites because of their flexibility and ability to dynamically change depending on the ad campaign. Unfortunately, they are …
A new SAML vulnerability could allow Cybercriminals to hack organisations Single-Sign-On to access private data. A flaw in the SAML protocol which is used by all SSO implementations from cloud providers and internal applications was discovered by Duo Security and the US-CERT. It allows an attacker to access users accounts without the need of their password thus not requiring a phishing …
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Antivirus fails to protect Small Business for these 5 Reasons All small businesses know they should be using antivirus and this often seen as a good first step to protecting your business from malicious software that will steal money from your banking account, or encrypt all your systems, therefore, holding you to ransom. However, it has been …
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