June 1st 2017
You will have read about the NHS and many other organisations being impacted by a new strain of ransomware. This ransomware is modified to not only encrypt the files in one laptop but to then spread through a company’s network to other laptops. It has been released by cyber criminals to several companies in Spain, […]
May 11th 2017
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May 8th 2017
Sir Tim Berners-Lee has given a series of interviews in which he has criticised how the internet has developed, condemning user privacy risks and harmful advertising practices. The man credited with inventing the internet in 1989 said it can be “ridiculously revealing”, telling The Guardian that the Trump administration’s decision to allow internet service providers […]
March 22nd 2017
Reports of identity theft reached their highest levels yet in 2016, says fraud prevention organisation Cifas. They have warned that young people are a growing target for fraudsters, with the number of victims aged under-21 rising by a third from the previous year. There were 172,919 incidents of identity theft last year, representing 53.3% of […]
February 13th 2017
Just when businesses are getting up to speed with the latest tricks employed by cyber criminals, another rears its ugly head. Ransomware is the practice of extorting a business by blocking access or threatening to damage their systems unless or until a sum of money is paid. While this risk is deemed as “emerging”, instances […]
