Nick Thomas Nov 1, 2019 3 min YouTube Security Warning as “Massive” Hack Attack Confirmed High-profile YouTubers also known as “influencers” have been targeted by cybercriminals using deceptive and targeted phishing emails over...
Nick Thomas Oct 31, 2019 3 min Sextortion - Can we avoid it? Sextortion is a type of online phishing that is targeting people around the world and preying on digital-age fears. With Aquilai we are...
Nick Thomas Oct 30, 2019 2 min New Phishing Attack Targets Bank Customers A new phishing scam is emerging to trick consumers into handing over their sensitive financial details, according to Which? Cyber...
Nick Thomas Oct 29, 2019 5 min Scams Training Is Not The Answer In The World Of Phishing Phishing is acknowledged as the foremost threat in cyber security and so, quite rightly, organisations want to protect themselves against...
Nick Thomas Mar 1, 2019 4 min Why Spear Phishing Campaigns Against UK Universities Are Fruitful For State Actors The UK’s NCSC has recently warned that hackers and state sponsored cyber actors have stepped up their attacks against the world’s leading...
Nick Thomas Feb 7, 2019 5 min SME’s Can Have Enterprise Class Solutions. One of the constant complaints heard in cyber security is that most security solutions are built for the Enterprise, with very little...
Nick Thomas Feb 6, 2019 2 min Are phishing stats real? Everywhere you turn on the Internet, you can find cyber security statistics – and they’re all very scary. I figured I’d pen a few quick...
Nick Thomas Jan 30, 2019 3 min Successful Phishing Campaigns On Office 365 Users In 2018 Cyber criminals are persistent if nothing else. Every time one of their deceptions gets discovered, they launch a new one to bypass...
Nick Thomas Jan 24, 2019 6 min Cordery share their take on French Data Protection Authority fining Google €50m for violations Introduction Yesterday’s €50m GDPR fine from the French Data Protection Authority shows that GDPR isn’t just about data security. The...
Nick Thomas Jan 15, 2019 3 min BEC – why the fuss? BEC is perhaps the latest, or maybe hottest, security scare acronym – Business Email Compromise. It’s a catchall term which reflects the...
Nick Thomas Jan 14, 2019 4 min Can Artificial Intelligence Help People From Being Phished? Security is a complex, sociotechnical system. It’s an interaction between technology, process and people. In the early days of...
Nick Thomas Jan 8, 2019 1 min January 2019 Patch Tuesday – 47 Vulns, 7 Critical, Adobe Vulns This month’s Patch Tuesday is medium in size, with 47 vulns covered and only 7 labeled as Critical. Twenty-six of the vulns apply to...
Nick Thomas Dec 12, 2018 3 min Application Vulnerability Management Requires a Risk-based Approach Application security teams face unique and often daunting challenges. It’s their job to protect the organization from application...
Nick Thomas Dec 11, 2018 1 min December 2018 Patch Tuesday – 39 Vulns, Workstation Patches, Adobe Vulns This month’s Patch Tuesday addresses 39 vulnerabilities, with 9 of them labeled as Critical. Out of the Criticals, most are...
Nick Thomas Dec 3, 2018 2 min Leaders – 10 quick tips for your email security For more than four years, IDECSI has built a solid reputation by protecting email and Office 365 accounts for executives and employees of...
Nick Thomas Nov 13, 2018 2 min November 2018 Patch Tuesday – 62 Vulns, TFTP Server RCE, Adobe PoC This month’s Patch Tuesday addresses 62 vulnerabilities, with 12 of them labeled as Critical. Out of the Criticals, 8 are for the Chakra...
Nick Thomas Nov 13, 2018 2 min Who Would Steal from a Charity? Cybercriminals I’ve been around technology in the professional sense for about 20 years. As a wee nipper I wrote my first program on my tape drive...
Nick Thomas Oct 9, 2018 1 min October 2018 Patch Tuesday – 49 Vulns, Critical browser patches, Hyper-V, Adobe vulns In this month’s Patch Tuesday release there are 49 vulnerabilities patched with 12 Criticals. Out of the criticals, over half are...
Nick Thomas Sep 29, 2018 1 min Join us at the Qualys Security Conference. We wouldn't miss this great opportunity to learn about the latest and greatest developments in the Qualys suite of services and we hope...
Nick Thomas Sep 13, 2018 2 min Breach detection - do you have what it takes? Is your detection and response technology 100% accurate, 100% of the time? If not, it’s time to turn the table on attackers! For no...
Nick Thomas Sep 10, 2018 2 min September 2018 Patch Tuesday – 61 Vulns, FragmentSmack, Hyper-V Escape In this month’s Patch Tuesday release there are 61 vulnerabilities patched with 17 Criticals. Out of the criticals, most are...
Nick Thomas Aug 16, 2018 2 min Assessing the Security Configurations of Your IT Systems to streamline GDPR Compliance. With Qualys Policy Compliance (PC), organisations can validate and track access to the files and databases on the systems involved in the...
Nick Thomas Aug 15, 2018 2 min August Patch Tuesday – 63 Vulns, L1TF (Foreshadow), Exchange, SQL, Active Attacks on IE flaw In this month’s Patch Tuesday release there are 63 vulnerabilities patched with 20 Criticals. Out of the criticals, over half are...
Nick Thomas Aug 14, 2018 2 min Streamlining GDPR compliance with Security Assessment Questionnaire Cyber Business Support helps organisations find and implement ways to reduce the burden of achieving and maintaining compliance to...
