The Second biggest Credit report company in the UK, Equifax, reported in 2017 impacted between 400,000 UK consumers, 145.5 million US consumers and 11,000 Canadian residents were affected, making it one of the largest data breaches in history. The Equifax breach saw hackers access data including names, addresses, dates of birth and, in a small […]

5 Members of the cyber crime network who used the GozNym malware accused of stealing around $100 million from in excess of 41,000 victims have been arrested in Bulgaria, Georgia and Ukraine as part of an investigation by Europol. The group of 10 individuals used GozNym to focus mainly on businesses and financial institutions, with […]

A Packet Analyzer or Sniffer is a program or computer hardware that allow network traffic to be intercepted or logged. As information and data passes through a network the packet sniffer is able to record each packet of data, decodes it and analyses it. The Capabilities of a Packet Sniffer Using a packet sniffer within […]

A BitCoin theft has been reported where Hackers have reportedly stolen £31m worth of BitCoin from the Japan based Binance Cryptocurrency exchange. Bitcoin Hacking The Bitcoin theft saw hackers apparently steal approximately 7,000 BitCoin from a hot wallet owned by Binance that contained 2% of the company’s stock. Bitcoin is currently valued at around £4,500 […]

GDPR Subject Access Explained The GDPR subject access provides individuals with the right to request and obtain a copy of their personal information in order to assist in helping them to understand how and the reasons for an organisation using their data and to check that they are using it legally. The introduction of GDPR […]