Year after year, analyses show that millions of people make, to put it mildly, questionable choices when it comes to the passwords they use to protect their accounts. Data for 2019 showed that bad habits do die hard and many people willingly put themselves in the firing line of account-takeover attacks.
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If you thought 2018 was a bad year for Cyber Security, 2019 was equally as bad, if not worse !
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2018 was definitely an eventful year for Security and Data Breaches.
Here we look back at some of the more notable stories from the past 12 months.
Password security company SplashData has released its annual list of the most commonly used passwords on the web.
The number one spot belongs to ‘123456’, which is followed by another maddeningly obvious choice, ‘password’. In fact, these two are stalwarts of the most common passwords, having claimed the first two spots for the fifth year in a row.
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In 2016, Internet stalwarts Yahoo discovered a data breach from 2013 where the account details of potentially all THREE BILLION customers had been compromised. This was discovered whilst they were investigating the compromise of 500 MILLION accounts from a 2014 breach.
Did you know that one of the major sources of data breaches isn’t hackers, but it’s accidentally disclosing e-mail addresses. Under the new 2018 Data protection regulations, an e-mail address is considered Personal Identifiable Information, and therefore covered by the UK Data Protect Act 2018 and the EU General Data Protection Regulation 2018 (GDPR).
The growth of phishing attacks in both frequency and sophistication poses a significant threat to both individuals and organisations. It’s important that you know how to spot some of the most common phishing scams if you are to protect personal and corporate information.
Phishing attacks are the most common form of attack received today. Our communication methods have moved away from voice to on-line, and with more online interactions with companies comes the bigger risk of these messages not always being what they seem. Read More
In a modern world, we are required to use passwords every day to access a multitude of systems – Office systems, e-mails, social media, banking, even to access the gym ! Read More
Action Fraud have released new figures which show a 52% rise in young people falling victim to identity fraud.
In 2015, just fewer than 24,000 people aged 30 and under were victims of identity fraud. This is up from 15,766 in 2014, and is more than double the 11,000 victims in this age bracket in 2010.