Ethical Hacking – What is it? Ethical hacking – how can something bad be ethical? If IT was a John Wayne film, hackers would be the bad guys in black hats. Hackers cause immense harm to public confidence in data security and e-commerce. They also force organisations to spend large sums of money on IT […]
Fraud – It started with a Tweet
Fraud – you can never be too careful Hardly a week goes by when we don’t hear another story about online or telephone banking fraud. In last weeks Guardian there was such a story, but this had a slightly different twist. Winning your trust For fraud to work, or so people tell me, you have […]
Covid-19 or Coronavirus – Working from home
Who would have thought that a naturally occurring virus, Covid-19 or Coronavirus, would be causing IT problems? If you are a small business or organisation, you might be trying to figure out what can be done to mitigate the effects of Covid-19 or Coronavirus. Most of us expect some negative consequences but are hoping for […]
Ransomware – Thoughts of a victim
Recently the PSNI Cyber Crime Centre engaged with a Northern Ireland company that was the victim of a ransomware attack. To help raise awareness of cyber crime in general and ransomware in particular, the victim agreed to share their experience with others. As a company, how prepared did you feel your organisation was before this […]
IT Security – Send a thief to catch a thief
I am sure you are familiar with the expression ‘Send a thief to catch a thief’. IT security is no different. This is a story about how someone tries to compromise the IT security of a bank by just walking into one of their branches. But the story could be about an office, a shop, […]