To any one over the age of forty, who will have almost certainly seen the 1973 film The Sting starring Robert Redford and Paul Newman, you will not find the concept behind the Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) too difficult to grasp, of course if you are younger you may have to ask your parents. Substitute shady […]
Zero Day Threats & Advanced Persistent Threats
12/11/2014 By Leave a Comment
Monday, Tuesday Wednesday, Thursday, Zero Day. Welcome to the new working week Unless you are an IT Security Specialist the terms Zero Day Threats and Advanced Persistent Threat are either new to you or are just phrases you have come across, you probably haven’t got a clear grasp of what they are, or considered the […]
Tetley Tea Master insures tongue for £1m
11/26/2014 By Leave a Comment
With the announcement that head tea taster Sebastian Michaelis who apparently can identify and assess tea blends in an amazing 15 seconds, will have his tongue insured against damage and sudden mal-function Michaelis is following a path previously trodden by musical superstars Dolly Parton and the Rolling Stones Keith Richards who both had parts of their body […]
So Whos afraid of APTs
11/25/2014 By Leave a Comment
Advanced Persistent Threats are a threat, not just to the travel and Tour industries but to companies across all industries, if you have secrets that can be sold, databases that can be mined in fact anything that has a value to the criminal gangs you are a target. The question of APTs and how to […]
Data Breach at Bookings.com
11/18/2014 By Leave a Comment
I have been watching the developments in the Bookings.com data breach story http://www.bbc.co.uk/Bookings.com with particular interest. I have fond memories of my formative years in IT, working in Travel and Tour having spent my early days in the IT industry working for First Choice Holidays now part of TUI. Our recent partnership with Cyber Spear […]
Protecting yourself from the twin evils of Spam and Social Engineering
07/21/2014 By Leave a Comment
Because of our expertise in the field of IT Security and spam filtering services many of our referrals come about as a result of businesses or individuals who have fallen victim to Cybercrime in some form such as malware infections, or in the case of a recent incident where we provided IT security assistance for […]
Putting Spam in its place
06/27/2014 By Leave a Comment
Considering the importance of email to the modern business possibly even exceeding that of the telephone it is surprising how the technologies that bring it to life, cure some of the bugbears and make it an excellent resource for the company are consistently neglected. In a future blog I will look at more effective ways […]
Hackers Topple Dominoes
06/25/2014 By Leave a Comment
Rex Mundi a Cyber Criminal group who specialise in stealing user data from global companies for extortion claim to have hacked the database for the Dominoes franchises covering France and Belgium, Dominoes have conceded that they have experienced an incident. The criminal gang Rex Mundi have demanded a ransom of £24,000 to prevent the posting […]
Eset identify Android exploit to prove you were right to be paranoid about the Android
06/19/2014 By Leave a Comment
Following on from last week’s spate of I phone hijackings now it’s the turn of the Android mobile device to be the focus of attention. Eset Antivirus announcement of the discovery of the Symplocker Trojan, which according to reports encrypts the devices HD card before demanding a ransom of £40 which is a bargain when […]
Feds acclaim the success of operation Tovar, for the moment anyway.
06/03/2014 By Leave a Comment
Operation Tovar led by the FBI and in conjunction with international crime fighting agencies including the UKs National Crime Agency (NCA) have combined to take down the command servers that direct and control the Botnets responsible for Gameover Zeus and CryptoLocker. The NCA in true Flash Gordon fashion have announced they have two weeks […]
