Luke Irwin Archive

In our latest round-up of phishing scams, we look at how criminal hackers infiltrated Twitter and sent tweets from dozens of compromised accounts. We also explain how fraudsters impersonated Google Cloud Platform in a PDF download scam, and issue a …

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, experts have warned that the switch to remote working would negatively affect organisations’ ability to detect and contain security incidents. Of course, many employers didn’t have a choice. Government guidelines in the UK …

A software supplier used by some of the UK’s biggest universities has confirmed that it suffered a cyber attack in May. Blackbaud, which provides education administration, fundraising and financial management software, was infected with ransomware, giving cyber criminals access to …

ISO 27001 is the international standard that describes best practice for an ISMS (information security management system). The Standard takes a risk-based approach to information security. This requires organisations to identify information security risks and select appropriate controls to tackle …

If you’re transferring data outside of the EEA, the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) imposes some restrictions. These apply to all data transfers, no matter the size of the transfer or how often you carry them out. So how do you …

UPDATE: Twitter has released new details about this attack, including that it was the result of spear phishing. Two weeks ago, the Twitter accounts of several high-profile figures, including Microsoft’s co-founder Bill Gates and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, were hacked …

Digital technologies are evolving so rapidly that vulnerabilities emerge faster than they can be secured. As such, it’s getting harder to prevent data breaches and criminals have their choice of weaknesses to exploit. This is the opinion of the WEC …