According to the latest research by Barclaycard, UK’s SMEs are failing to protect themselves from the growing threat of cyber crime. The research found that 48% of the surveyed businesses suffered at least one cyber attack in the past year and 10% experienced more than 4 attacks in the same period. Only 13% of the… Read More: SMEs are still not taking cyber threats seriously »
Whaling is a type of phishing – an attempt to trick a person to disclose valuable information, usually login details, by way of spoofing an email or a website or by social engineering. Phishing becomes whaling, when targeting high value individuals, such as business managers, company directors or financial controllers. The goal is to either… Read More: The threat of “whaling” – SMEs beware »
Over the past decade, the landscape of cyber threats has multiplied in size but also transformed. Arguably, every computer with any kind of direct or indirect connection to the internet is now a target. The greatest transformation occurred in the use of automated tools by cyber criminals, which allows them to operate at massive scales.… Read More: Cyber security is now a necessity since everyone is a… »