A report from GoDaddy concludes that small businesses are just as likely to bit hit by a ransomware as larger enterprises, perhaps because the vast majority of their websites have no adequate security measures in place. More than a third of the companies they surveyed have been hit in the last year. 24% suffered financial […]
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) are jointly investigating a “cyber incident” at a third party firm that handles the Labour Party’s data involving “a significant quantity” of information relating to party members which was “rendered inaccessible on their systems”. The Labour Party and the National Crime Agency are […]
The London Metropolitan Police’s Tom Lee on how he and his colleagues in the Cyber Unit help businesses and other organisations as well as members of the public to protect themselves from cyber criminals and particularly the threat of ransomware attacks. We hear some of the horror stories he encounters on a daily basis and […]
By the end of 2021, it is projected that ransomware will have cost businesses in excess of $20 Billion, and this is expected to rise to $265 Billion by 2031. It’s not only large, affluent companies hat are affected, either. Smaller companies that might hold valuable data are often easier to penetrate and extort. As […]
are technica reports that the operator of an illegal video streaming website called HeheStreams tried to extort $150,000 out of the US’s premier baseball league, the MLB, by stealing and threatening to publish its security vulnerabilities after being rebuffed by the MLB when he asked for compensation for pointing them out. Joshua Streit, AKA Josh […]
The latest Osirium Ransomware Index shows different types of companies are affected in different ways by ransomware attacks, especially if they outsource their IT to a third party. 77% of surveyed senior IT managers who outsource were worried about the threat of an attack through their supply chain (that rose to 82% with medium- and […]