The latest Government statistics show that only 35% of people in the UK are following Government’s latest advice to use strong passwords made up of three random words. According to…
Day: October 27, 2016
DDoS attack overwhelmed Dyn despite mitigation efforts
Orders of magnitude fewer devices caused the service interruptions, Dyn says. By Tim Greene Dyn says that the DDoS attack that swamped its DNS resolution service last week was backed…
Alert: Fake WhatsApp messages from Sainsbury’s and Topshop
Fraudsters are sending out fake Sainsbury’s and Topshop voucher deals through WhatsApp that appear to have been sent by a trusted contact. The fake WhatsApp messages appear as if they…
Cyber security 'key issue for lawyers'
Nearly half of Scottish solicitors see cyber security as their biggest technological challenge, according to a survey of practitioners. The survey, carried out by Ipsos Mori for the Law Society…