FinPhishing - or financial spear phishing - is a form of social engineering attack which is becoming massively profitable for the criminal enterprises involved. Unfortunately for the victims it is…
One sad fact about security is that no matter what controls you put in place, you will suffer breaches and if you are on the internet it is likely to…
As our existing clients may be aware, Halkyn Consulting has entered into a three week period where we maximise our courses and vacation time. During this period we will be…
Reported on the Register today, security researchers have demonstrated how malicious code can be run on graphics processors (GPUs) rather than the central processing unit (CPUs) at the heart of…
For lots of enterprises, security patches are a pain to test, a pain to deploy and frequently frustrating when they require downtime for the inevitable system reboots. However, security patches…
As most internet users know, phishing attacks are very common. The term itself dates back to 1995 (e.g. AOHell) and social engineering (which is basically what phishing is) goes back…
Budgets are integral to every business. The start up's business plan has to include budgets and the multinational will have an entire finance unit geared around making sure that every…
The Information Commissioner's Office announced on 24 Feb 2015 that it had levied a monetary penalty of £175,000 against the holiday insurance company Staysure. The fine came about as a…
The internet has been changing the world for decades now, and nowhere has this been more obvious than the retail sector. Internet access has opened up new markets, invented new…
The ever popular ISO27001 self assessment checklist is now being downloaded at around 1000 times a month. Since we published it in October 2013, there have been over 13000 copies…
Retail security is in the news again as the British Retail Consortium (BRC) report that crime in this sector has reached a 10 year high. This reporting appears to indicate…
The insider threat is in the news again. On 8 December it was reported that ex-Apple employee, Paul Devine, had been sentenced to jail and a fine following a guilty…
Employee security really does matter. Your employees are the lifeblood of every organisation. You put a lot of effort into hiring new staff, you train them, you nurture them and…
The prison service in Northern Ireland has been warned by the ICO over another data breach. The ICO press release is available online: http://ico.org.uk/news/latest_news/2014/prison-service-warned-after-maze-records-sold-at-auction-18062014 This incident relates to the Prison Service…
It seems that Truecrypt is too popular a tool for people to give up on it and version 7.1a is still available for download. A website has sprung up at…
