How can you make your employees care about cyber security? Protecting your computers and networks, and the data that they contain is a complex issue. If you are to have any chance of success, then the attitudes of your employees towards cyber securi ...
How can you make your employees care about cyber security? Protecting you computers and networks and the data that they contain is a complex issue. If you are to have any chance of success, then the attitudes of your employees towards cyber secur ...
Password Security Passwords, normally in conjunction with a User identity (userid), have been in use for as long as we have had access to computers. While they are far from a perfect system of providing a unique identification for access to resources and ...
Tips for improving information security and Resilience Security must be a business enabler, not prevent it. Security is everyone’s responsibility, so provide awareness sessions and teach the basics again and again. Educate your staff about wha ...
GDPR – What is it and how will it affect me? The new EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a global data protection law that will affect any organisation with customers in the EU or which processes the personal data of EU citizens. In the UK ...
How Do I Create a Backup of My Computer? The first question is perhaps ‘why do I need to make a backup?’ Well the answer to that will vary. If you store nothing that has any value on your computer and have the installation disks (you remember, tho ...
What is Malicious Software? Malicious Software, also known as malware is any software that is designed to intentionally cause damage to a computer, server, or computer network. It comes in many forms including computer viruses, worms, Trojan hor ...
One of the UK’s leading cyber security experts Professor Andrew Jones, author of ‘Global Information Warfare: The new digital battlefield,’ has developed a number of simple and easy to understand articles on computer security for the CSRI. ...
The police are warning that online dating sites have become a haven for paedophiles and criminals. ...
The head of Britain’s top cyber defence unit has warned UK businesses that they must get up to speed on the threat from cyber criminals writes Matt Warren. ...
Millions of electronic hotel door locks including those of US President Donald Trump’s hotel group and other chains around the world have been found to be vulnerable to hackers. ...
Britain’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), part of the GCHQ spy centre, has issued a warning about anti-viral software manufactured by the Russian company Kaspersky Lab. ...
Safety concerns over smart home appliances and toys have prompted police in the UK and US to call for controls on Internet of Things devices. ...
It used to be called the hacker’s defence, but there is now a growing body of evidence to show that people with Asperger’s Syndrome really do have a talent for breaking into computer systems. To listen to the podcast click here ...
As hospitals, companies and government agencies in more than 150 countries struggle to cope with the biggest ever ransomware attack, CSRI editor Peter Warren has been analysing why warnings went unheeded, to hear the CSRI’s podcast click here. ...
In the run-up to three European elections top cyber security experts warn of the dangers of fake news attacks from Russia in a bid to influence the result. ...
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Tim Passmore, the Suffolk Police Commissioner, who put cybercrime on his election manifesto: “it’s a serious, serious issue, millions of crimes each year and of course the cost to the UK economy is estimated to be £193bn, a year that’s the e ...
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The cyber security plague known as ‘ransomware’ is now an epidemic with crime gangs selling lifetime use of the software to the criminals who use it for as little as £30. ...
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There are signs that the IS message and its tactics have changed since the group’s bloody emergence in June 2014. In 1996, Major General Charles Dunlap, who subsequently served in Iraq and Afghanistan, predicted that terrorists would try to influence We ...
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The CSRI has decided to take a long hard look at the piece of legislation that David Cameron considers to be the most important to this parliament. Surprisingly, nothing to do with leaving Europe but the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act. In thi ...
The CSRI has decided to take a long hard look at the piece of legislation that David Cameron considers to be the most important to this parliament. Surprisingly, nothing to do with leaving Europe but the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act. ...
Joint research by the Cyber Security Research Institute and the penetration testing company Mandalorian sponsored by the data protection specialists F-Secure has exposed a worrying levels of vulnerability to cyber attack among the UK’s top legislato ...
Experts working in Kaspersky Lab’s Computer Incidents Investigation Department (CIID) have spent the last three and a half years investigating more than 330 cybersecurity incidents affecting government and private-sector organisations. Their findings ...
The Russian intelligence agency is actively using computer hackers to further the country’s foreign policy aims according to researchers working for the Finnish computer security company F-Secure. ...
The US Government has signaled that it will impose economic sanctions on Chinese companies if a prolonged cyber espionage campaign attributed to the People’s Republic does not cease. ...
Top cyber-warfare expert Professor Andrew Jones is casting doubt on North Korea’s ability to mount deadly attacks Matt Warren reports … ...
The US Government is to launch an unprecedented counter attack on the Chinese hackers that have been accused of stealing the country’s state and industrial secrets. ...
For the first time in 12 years, on the 16th of October, 2012, Gary McKinnon got lucky. ...
The European Union has warned that due to the Highroller virus that European banks should work on the assumption that all home PCs are infected. What this basically means is that the banks should protect themselves against the PCs of their customers becau ...
European companies using the cloud are potentially contravening data protection laws in the UK and Europe. An investigation by CSRI’s siste site Future Intelligence into the legal position of data stored in the cloud has found that many companies ar ...
Nasa’s testimony at House of Representatives hearing reveals massive cyber spying attacks ...
The Ponemon Institute is pleased to present the findings of the 2011 Global Encryption Trends Study, sponsored by Thales e-Security. We surveyed 4,140 business and IT managers in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Australia, Japan and B ...
New Payment Methods may no longer be new, but the term has become synonymous with financial payments transacted via mobile telephones, data storage cards, and internet connections. Naturally, variations of the methods change as technology develops. NFC ...
A McAfee report on its investigation into APT attacks written in the first person by Dmitri Alperovitch, Vice President, Threat Research, McAfee: An investigation of targeted intrusions into more than 70 global companies, governments, and non-pr ...
Since the “first public sites were made available on the world wide web and email began to become a mass communication medium, nearly two decades ago, cybercrime has been a problem for individuals, businesses and organisations. Now, cybercrime has c ...
A report from accountant PwC’s calling for increased awareness of technology issues among senior executives. ...
Over the past few years, data loss has rocketed to the top of IT chiefs’ agenda. This hardly represents an unfamiliar new challenge for IT – rather it’s a recognisable business concern that has been given added impetus. And the reason data lo ...
The outrage over the illegal accessing of mobile phone messages in the UK has failed to expose the full list of those to blame in the scandal. Revelations about the practice of remotely listening to other people’s voice messages – erroneously labelled ...
Recently, the value of de-identification of personal information as a tool to protect privacy has come into question. Repeated claims have been made regarding the ease of re-identification. We consider this to be most unfortunate because it leaves the mis ...
Malicious software primer March 3, 2011 Malicious software is the catch all name that is given to any software that has been created to cause harm to a computer, or the individual or company, that is using that computer. It generally includes computer vir ...
Introduction Today’s current economic climate has presented many major headaches for employers. One that is discussed less often than reduced sales and higher operating costs is the increased risk of employee fraud. The elevated threat of being made re ...
