IT security professional’s ten tips to keep your smartphone secure

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Category: Cyber Security (Personal)

A sizeable proportion of people are oblivious to the fact that smartphones can catch viruses.

With almost every adult and child in the UK owning a smartphone it is no surprise that attackers are targeting them with increasing enthusiasm.

Complexity of technology breeds more complex viruses. Five years ago, smartphones could just about make a call and browse a basic website. Today they are nearly as complex as a laptop or desktop.

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Ashley Madison hack and Cloud Flare: it is too late to beef up your security

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Category: Blog

Looking at ashleymadison.com name servers (DNS) in the last 1-2 days they have mysteriously switched to Cloud Flare (cloud WAF).

Ashley Madison "immediately engaged one of the world's top IT security teams", great though you should have done it before.

As normal a reactive approach not a proactive approach. We get hacked let's spend some cash!

HNWI security expert: there is more to worry about than evil viruses and basement hackers

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Category: Cyber Security (Personal)

Every week (or sometimes even daily) we hear about cyber-attacks from DDoS (distributed denial of service) to exposure of databases. As we all know, newspapers love “sexy” stories relating to crime, guns, terrorism or hacking. Though this is a big concern which cannot be swept under the carpet, other more mundane vulnerabilities do exist and can be more dangerous than cyber-attacks.

Let’s use an analogy: A home has multiple points of entry, including the front door, back door, windows and garage. All these must be secured, perhaps with thick glass, shatter film or metal bars, together with alarms, sensors, CCTV and possibly a safe for valuables. If a burglar manages to break into the house, what is stopping him or her stealing desktop computers, smartphones, laptops, CDs/DVDs, tablets or USB drives? Probably very little.

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