Phishing – as defined by a quick Google search is “the fraudulent practice of sending emails purporting to be from reputable companies in order to induce individuals to reveal personal information, such as passwords and credit card numbers, online.
The Cloud Industry forum found in 2014 that 86% of small and medium sized enterprises had adopted some form of cloud-based technology within their IT system. Over half of the businesses polled in the survey said that they expected cloud-based services to take over all of their IT estate “at some point soon” with 16% saying “as soon as possible”.
Today we were delighted to see the BBC encouraging their website readers to test their cybersecurity. With a number of increasingly difficult cyber quizzes, you can see how cyphers and codes work.
You can have a go yourself on their website by following this link.
A new security vulnerability as been identified in Open SSL that could effect up to 11 million websites or around one third of all computer servers using the HTTPS protocol.
A fix has been identified and is being issued but it will take some time for website administrators to make sure their systems are protected.
Cyber Essentials as the name suggests is a scheme backed by the Government and supported by the IT industry that provides businesses of all shapes and sizes with guidelines on how to protect themselves from Cyber Threats.
Many clients have asked us the pros and cons of an in-house hosted exchange vs. a cloud based system, so we have put together a whitepaper outlining the main differences.