Talk to any cyber security professional and one of the first things you’ll notice is frustration. Despite all the advice out there on how to avoid phishing attacks, or choose secure authentication methods, and so on, the problems persist—people continue to click suspicious links in emails and use ‘password’ as a password. As a result, […]

2018 proved to be an expensive year for a number of firms, both major and minor, around the globe. An IBM report suggested that the average cost of a breach last year reached almost $3.7m, and the nature of averages means that half were above that. Here we will present a brief run-down of some

Europol’s 2018 Internet Organised Crime Threat Assessment reported that ‘[m]obile malware [was] absent in law enforcement reporting, but industry reports [a] growing volume’ of such attacks. The authors suspected that the cause of the low law enforcement figures may have been that ‘[v]ictims of mobile malware are more likely to approach their provider in relation

The ‘butterfly effect’ is a popular way of explaining chaotic systems to non-mathematicians—the flapping of a butterfly’s wings in one country contributes, however slightly, to a change in wind patterns that can cause a tornado in another weeks later. It’s important to be aware that our Internet-connected world is just as prone to producing these

You may have talk about the idea that we are now entering a ‘fifth generation’, or ‘Gen V’, of cyber security. You may have wondered what that means, what the previous four generations were and which generation of attacks your organisation’s current security practices are sufficient to defend against. The ‘Gen V’ idea comes from