Almost all UK businesses have suffered some kind of security breach

Nearly every business in the UK has been affected by a form of data breach over the last year, new figures have claimed. According to a new report by Carbon Black, out of roughly 250 C-suites that were polled, 92 per cent confirmed to have been breached in the last year. Out of those that […]

Posted by Smeeta Padhiar
On 12th September 2018
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Email attacks on the rise, say 80% of businesses

Impersonation attacks have increased 80 percent quarter on quarter, according to a new report. The latest figures show that Impersonation or Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks have spiked enormously. According to the new ESRA report from Mimecast, which tests the efficiency of email security systems, a significant 203,000 malicious links within 10,072,682 emails were deemed safe […]

Posted by Smeeta Padhiar
On 29th August 2018
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Security Think Tank: Human, procedural and technical response to fileless malware

Mike Gillespie in Computer Weekly – What should organisations do at the very least to ensure business computers are protected from fileless malware? Read full story.

Posted by Smeeta Padhiar
On 13th March 2018
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1. Fileless attacks – a growing menace. A series of opinions from Advent IM Consultants

From Del Brazil Senior Security Consultant – Advent IM Fileless Malware Simply put Fileless malware is a very well-engineered piece of malware that is very difficult to detect as part of any post incident analysis. It is designed to operate and survive in the memory of systems and as such once a system is re-booted […]

Posted by Ellie Hurst
On 5th March 2018
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#Security predictions for 2018 from the Advent IM Team

Its that time of year. We look back over our shoulder and use the previous 12 months to try and work out what we can expect in the coming 12 months. Sometimes we get it horribly right, such as our prediction of the meteoric rise in ransomware and also that it would start to impact […]

Posted by Ellie Hurst
On 21st December 2017
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Mike talks to CSL’s Simon Banks about cyber crime and security for installers

This month Simon Banks talks to Mike Gillespie, Founder of Advent IM Ltd the UK’s leading independent information security and physical security consultancy. Mike is also Vice President of ‘The Centre for Strategic Cyberspace + Security Science’. Read it here.

Posted by Ellie Hurst
On 15th December 2017
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Posted by Ellie Hurst
On 12th December 2017
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Julia’s #Rules to Ransomware Safety

From Advent IM Director, Julia McCarron For those of you who read my irregular blogs, you’ll know I have a passion for the TV series NCIS. When I say passion more of an obsession really. So imagine the irony when they air an episode in the UK about Ransomware, in the wake of the world’s […]

Posted by Ellie Hurst
On 22nd May 2017
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CSP: 2017 – Ransomware workshop

York Racecourse is the venue for CSP: 2017 and this year it is 23-24 May. Ellie Hurst will be hosting a workshop to discuss the legalities and implications of paying ransoms through cyberspace, on day 1. Details of the event are here.

Posted by Ellie Hurst
On 18th April 2017
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Ready for Doxware?

A guest post from Del Brazil – Advent IM Security Consultant Doxware is a more vicious version of Ransomware in that not only does the hacker holds the user to ransom having encrypted their files but also threatens to release sensitive information, photos and/or conversations into the public domain until such time a ransom is […]

Posted by Ellie Hurst
On 24th January 2017
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