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World’s second largest data breach hits Marriott customers

Half a billion user accounts stolen over four years On 8th September 2018, Marriott hotels noticed a security alert concerning an attempt to access the Starwood Hotels reservation database which the hotel chain had purchased back in 2016. Recent investigations have revealed that the attackers had access to the Starwood systems and database since 2014, […]

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Meltdown and Spectre – it’s not over yet!

Meltdown and Spectre are a family of security attacks that operate at the hardware-level of modern processors. Some of the attack variants have supposedly been mitigated by microcode and BIOS patches issued by the processor vendors; however, new research published by Cornell University reveals several new attack vectors and the report suggests that the previously-issued

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Mirai Botnet Grows Up

The Mirai malware which infects Linux-based IoT devices to form large-scale DDoS botnets has recently been discovered infecting commercial-grade Linux servers, according to a recent report from Netscout. Commercially-hosted linux servers have significantly more network bandwidth and could be used to launch far more damaging Denial-of-Service (Dos) attacks against other Internet-based hosts. Exploiting a vulnerability

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What are the security improvements of WPA3 ?

The Wi-Fi Alliance (WFA) — the body responsible for creating the encryption standard used by billions of wireless Wi-Fi products worldwide — announced in January 2018 some significant improvements to its security protocol Wi-Fi Protected Access II (WPA2). In a much-anticipated move, the Wi-Fi Alliance also announced WPA3. The new protocol is designed to work alongside

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SecureTeam are now a Cyber Essentials Certification Body

We are pleased to announce that SecureTeam are now an accredited Certification Body under the UK government’s Cyber Essentials scheme. The Cyber Essentials scheme was set up in 2014 as a security initiative led by the UK government’s National Cyber Security Centre. The scheme provides businesses and organisations of all sizes to show their commitment

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10 Ways to Protect Yourself from Phishing Attacks

Email-based phishing attacks continue to soar at an all-time high. According to the State of the Phish™ Report 2018 by Wombat Security, it was reported that 76% of information security professionals had experienced phishing attacks against their organisations in 2017. As businesses and individuals, we continue to be plagued by phishing emails, which in some

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