Over 20 percent of businesses had to deal with the consequences of Cyber Attacks in 2016 Over 20 percent of businesses with at least 10 employed persons had to deal with the consequences of cyber attacks in 2016. The financial and energy sectors were affected in particular. Nearly half of the affected businesses [...]
HOW TECHNOLOGY BASED SECURITY SOLUTIONS ARE INHIBITING PRODUCTIVITY Installing technology based solutions often seems to be the first action to take in defending your organization against cybert security risks. Still they are not the only en best actions to take. We’re not suggesting that IT decision makers are doing nothing to defend [...]
THE HUMAN FACTOR IN CYBERCRIME AND CYBERSECURITY Recently, on May 10th, the Dutch Center for Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR) presented an interesting new publication focused on the human factor in cybercrime at the International One Conference 2017 in the World Forum in The Hague: Research agenda, The human factor in cybercrime and cybersecurity. Cybercrime is [...]
10 Steps against an email phishing attack. Phishing Definition Phishing is the term for the fishing for personal information in order to commit fraud. This usually occurs through unsolicited emails (spam) or by telephone contact with criminals masquerading as a trustworthy entity / bank demand (login) codes or to send your debit card. This [...]
How to prevent being hacked in your lunch or coffee break. How likely is it that I get hacked. You always think that couldn´t happen to me. For a moment you do not pay attention and suddenly there is malware on your laptop. Someone has infected your computer within a few seconds, and simply [...]
The Forgetting Curve of Herman Ebbinghaus German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus, a pioneer in educational psychology research, is considered the discoverer of the classical forgetting curve. He discovered that newly learned things could be fully reproduced, but as time passed, could ever reproduce less knowledge. In addition, he discovered that this curve eventually leveled [...]
Research Confirmed: More Security Awareness Training required At the Black Hat USA 2016 conference in Las Vegas earlier this month, Thycotic, a specialist in privileged account management (PAM) solutions, surveyed more than 250 attendees who self-identified as hackers (respondents remained anonymous). Hackers believe no password is safe from a determined attacker, but they agree that [...]
Security Training at Most Companies is Woefully Lacking Human error and lack of internal security awareness are the biggest sources for data breaches and risk to organizations. Yet 78% of SMBs conduct security training just once a year (or less). According to Shred-it’s 2016 Security Tracker survey (conducted by Ipsos), US companies are failing to [...]
How to secure your small business against data breaches and hacks. E-commerce and security experts offer 10 tips for preventing security breaches, hacks and security of customer data. Cybersecurity - and security breaches of systems- remains a hot topic. SMEs and e-commerce companies, especially those that use an open source platform, are particularly susceptible [...]
Whaling? Whaling, the phenomenon you're likely better known than the word itself. Whaling is another form of phishing in which it does not involve the retrieval of data, but rather to carry out an action such as activating a payment. The procedure is as follows: A so-called familiar or executive from the management will contact [...]
