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Though ransomware has stolen much of the limelight over the past two years, following the unprecedented WannaCry and NotPetya attacks of 2017, the biggest threat to businesses remains, and may be increasingly, that of Trojan horse malware.

Two things can be expected from any field at the start of a new year. First, a look back at the events of the previous year. Second, a rather more risky look ahead at the year to come, complete with predictions and premonitions. This is true in the cyber security field as much as in any other.

As in every industry—particularly technology-centric ones—the history of the cyber security industry has been one of task automation. From the early days (some may say Gen I days) of firewalls and pattern-matching antiviruses to modern techniques of machine learning-based malware detection and traffic analysis, the tools available to a security-minded business are constantly growing in complexity, in an arms race with cybercriminals whose malware has been doing the same.

This article will hopefully help to explain what end-of-lifing means to you, as well as steps you can take to ensure that you can be secure in a year.

A recent article in IEEE Security & Privacy—“Teaching Authentication as a Life Skill”—detailed the results of a team of Swiss researchers and their attempts to teach authentication to high-schoolers as a ‘life skill’. Choosing to focus on high-school students because as ‘it is crucially important that security be taught at an early age, before users

Ransomware attacks are amongst the most-discussed new threats to have emerged in the past few years, but what is ransomware, how can it impact your business and how can you protect yourself against it?

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