With Christmas having recently passed, many households have new devices that were received as gifts on Christmas day. These new devices can provide entertainment and be an excellent gift, however they can also pose a threat. An investigation from Which? discovered that homes filled with smart devices could be vulnerable to up to 12,000 hacking […]
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Last month the conveyancing firm Premier property lawyers suffered an IT breach that rendered them unable to access their systems for several days. The systems going down meant that thousands of property buyers were left in a state of “limbo” with transactions unable to be completed. Some property buyers ended up in a situation where
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A NOC (Network Operations Center) is a central location where IT teams can continuously monitor the performance and health of a network, 24/7. The NOC serves as the first line of defence against network disruptions and failures. As well as monitoring the software and traffic of a network, a NOC is able to maintain the
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An investigation from Which? discovered that homes filled with smart devices could be vulnerable to up to 12,000 hacking attacks from anywhere in the world. On average, each UK household has 10 smart devices connected to the internet, including smart speakers, TVs, cameras and computers. Each of these devices are able to be accessed by
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The UK ISP, Sky, has left 6 million customers’ routers vulnerable to attacks for nearly 18 months before a patch was released on the 22nd of October 2021. The security consulting firm, Pen Test Partners traced the flaw back to DNS rebinding attacks that were used to compromise networks back in May 2020. This flaw
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Before knowing why a security operations centre (SOC) is important we must first understand what one is. A Security Operations Centre (SOC) is a central location where an information/cyber security team monitors, detects, analyses and resolves cybersecurity incidents. This security team is often available 24/7, 365 days a year and is made up of security
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“OT infrastructure and equipment are some of the most valuable assets manufacturing and industrial companies own, but these same pieces of machinery are also some of the most vulnerable to cyber-attacks” – Todd H. Poole, Principal, Hewlett Packard Pathfinder Operational Technology (OT) is the use of hardware and software to monitor and control physical processes,
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As technology progresses, so does the world around us. Cities play a big part in that world, as they are home to millions of people and businesses. Using this technology we can make the quality of life, as well as the economy, better in these cities. According to the European commission, “Smart Cities are cities
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The recently released 2.4.49 version for the Apache HTTP Web Servers revealed a flaw, which was found in the changes made to the Path Normalisation. The flaw, which was discovered on the 29th of September, is known as CVE-2021-41773, enabled an attacker to use a Path traversal attack to map URLs to files outside the
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2020 has taught us that we must be incredibly flexible in how we operate our businesses. The pandemic, natural disasters, overall unrest…all of it has given us an opportunity to think about how we build a business that is not only resilient but prepared for what’s next. 2020 has given us the “work from anywhere”
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