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…

The 5th of May is the World Password Day – a promotion of good password security organised by Intel and sponsored by many other IT industry heavyweights. If you are a manager, director or owner of a small business, you could do a lot worse than going to the website of World Password Day and…

According to a survey commissioned by the HM Government and produced by the international consultancy PwC, 90% of large organisations and 74% of small businesses experienced a security breach in 2015. The 2014 figures were 81% and 60% respectively, which for the small businesses represents an increase of 23%. What is even more concerning, is…

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…