Tips for the non-technical: securing your WordPress site
Over 43% of all websites use WordPress in 2023. Not all of those are businesses, but even so, there are about 810 million WordPress websites. If one of those is yours, you need to know how to keep it secure. Not only to keep your business data secure, but also to keep your website up and open for business. Security ...
Oops, nearly!
In those dangerous industries where safety is taken very seriously—such as oil and gas, or manufacturing—near miss reporting is used to improve safety processes. Analysing those occasions where a disaster nearly happened helps identify potential problems and put in place corrective actions. This reduces the number of future accidents and helps instill a safety-first culture. Near miss in cyber security ...
Reporting a cyber incident: who should you tell?
Ever wondered which organisations you should report a cyber incident to? Should you call the police? If you need advice right now because you’re in the middle of an incident, and don’t know who to call, stop reading this and go to the NCSC website. They have a list of companies that will help you with response and recovery. Should ...
Security and the Gunpowder Plot
Every year on November 5th, we celebrate the failure of a plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament and kill the king, along with his relatives, a large part of the aristocracy, bishops, and judges. The plotters were English Catholics who wanted to replace King James with his daughter, Elizabeth, but they were detected in time and the plot ...
Zombie accounts might come back to bite you
If you’ve been using the internet for any length of time, you’ve probably set up online accounts with a lot of different organisations. Maybe to make a purchase, sign up for a free trial of a product or service, or to download something you wanted to read. Most of us fail to close these accounts later. Perhaps we plan to ...
What do we really do – and how can we help?
What do you think of when you think about cyber security work? The popular image of cyber security work is probably of someone sitting in front of multiple screens—maybe in the dark, wearing a hoodie, and with those screens showing green digital rain, Matrix-style. Of course, real life is nothing like movies, and while we do spend a lot of ...
