Cyber security is becoming the latest trend. We’ve all read about the TalkTalk, Dropbox and Yahoo breaches, and this means that they will only be on the rise in the near future. As human beings, we are wired to make mistakes, therefore it is only necessary that you educate your…
GDPR, or officially, the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 will come into force on the 25th of May 2018. To rephrase – this means that you now have less than nineteen months to get ready for what is the biggest shakeup in Data Protection in the last decade. Therefore companies, their employees and…
There has been a significant and constant rise in phishing attacks. They are becoming more effective and they are continuing to target more people. that almost 30% of the people targeted by phishing email scams went on to open the email, and a further 13% went on to open the subsequent link, which is high considering…
We at Metacompliance have enjoyed celebrating European Cyber Security Month (ECSM) 2016. For Week One of the campaign, we discussed how users can stay safe online. We then went to the workplace and provided tips on how organisations can enlist their employees’ support in creating a security culture. After that, Week Three led…
October marks National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM). A month-long public awareness campaign designated by the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS), NCSAM is designed to help users in the United States learn about cyber security. It includes resources and tools that people can use to stay safe on the web.…
We can’t overestimate the importance of education when it comes to improving our awareness of phishing and other digital security threats. That is why I discussed some tips to help users spot a phishing scam in a recent article. We also mention some of the best anti phishing solutions. Knowing…
A security researcher tricked a tech support scammer into installing a copy of Locky ransomware onto their computer. The story began for Ivan Kwiatkowski, a security researcher who lives in France, when his parents asked him for help after visiting a website (snapshot here) that claimed the Zeus trojan had infected their…
The Federal Bureau of Investigations is warning users to be on the lookout for extortion attempts via email in the wake of several high-profile data breaches. On Wednesday, the FBI revealed in a public service announcement that the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) continues to receive reports from users regarding email-based extortion…
Hackers made off with the email addresses and passwords belonging to 65 million users of the microblogging platform and social networking website Tumblr. Earlier in May, Tumblr revealed it had just discovered a data breach that occurred back in 2013. Per a statement released by Yahoo, which now owns the social media…
Opera has become the first major browser vendor to incorporate a free, built-in virtual private network (VPN) into its desktop browser. Krystian Kolondra, SVP of Engineering and Head of Opera for computers, provides more information in a blog post. “We are the first major browser maker to integrate an unlimited and…
A recent DataMotion study brought up some shocking statistics regarding attitudes to compliance training in 2015. The study found that 33% of business owners felt that their employees didn’t understand basic safety procedures that ensure the security of data. 33% is an astronomically high number. Criminally high But that’s not all. The…
Over the past month, researchers have spotted high volumes of spam email JavaScript attachments that, if opened by a user, leads to the download of Locky ransomware. Rodel Mendrez, a security researcher at Trustwave, explains in a blog post that he has observed “extraordinary huge volumes of JavaScript attachments” in punctuated bursts…
A judge is scheduled to sentence a hacker for a targeted attack back in July of 2015 that forced Moonpig to suspend its website on three continents. The Whitehaven News reports that Anthony Luke Fulton, 22, of Mill Hill, Cleator Moor, recently appeared before Judge Barbara Forrester after having pleaded guilty to…
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