Email is the lifeblood of most businesses, and at this time of year the emails are coming thick and fast. While you’re busy working towards the end of the year, your staff are planning the end of year party, your suppliers and partners are thanking you for your business and your customers are trying to get their last minute questions answered.
This is just the sort of chaos that cyber attackers love to take advantage of.
Read MoreThinking of taking the family to Disneyland these holidays? Looking to trade the Aussie summer heat for the slopes of a Canadian winter? Planning for trips like these can be fun, but keep a look out when you get to the visa application stage of your preparations for scammers out to make a quick buck (or worse).
Read MoreAs Christmas draws closer and we continue to hunt for that perfect gift, the chances of us stumbling into a fake online store waiting to take advantage of us increases. The price might seem amazing, but how can you tell if that site you’re browsing will deliver the goods?
Read MoreThe holiday period can be a busy time for all of us as we work hard towards the end of the year. Unfortunately, cybercriminals frequently use this as an opportunity to take advantage and have a number of seasonally specific attacks they use to threaten small businesses. To help you prepare for these threats we’ve created the “12 Days of Threatmas”.
Sign-up and over 12 days we’ll send you information of specific threats you should be aware of this time of year and quick tips to help you protect your business and keep you secure into the new year.
Read MoreCyber security is NOT a technology issue, it's a business issue
It sounds like a cliche, but in my opinion this is absolutely the number one most misunderstood thing about cyber security today. So many of the business owners that we from Cynch speak to have started the discussion with the belief that it's all about what technology their business uses or what software, and they don't think about any other aspect of their business or the market they operate in and how this affects their risk.
Read MoreYahoo have announced yet another massive breach of their systems, this time dating back to 2013 and impacting around 1 Billion user accounts. If you had a Yahoo account in 2013 we recommend you immediately review the security guidance they have published here:
When the breach of 500 Million Yahoo accounts was announced in September, we wrote up some steps you should take as a business to respond. Yet again you should consider resetting your Yahoo account and changing your password on any other service that may be linked or where you have reused or used a similar password. It is also important to ensure that any staff within your business do the same as they may leave your business systems at risk if they come under attack.
Beyond protecting account credentials there are some other potential impacts you should be mindful of with compromises of this magnitude.
Read MoreA new attack targeting Magento Commerce stores known as MageCart has been compromising the payment details of online store customers around the world. What are the risks, how can you find out if your effected and what should you do if you've been compromised?
Read MoreIn 2014 Yahoo was the victim of a significant breach that resulted in the details of over 500 million users being compromised. The breach is believed to have been state sponsored and includes names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, hashed passwords and, in some cases, security questions and answers. Find out what this means for your business.
Read MoreIn 2012 Dropbox was the victim of a significant breach that resulted in the email addresses and passwords of some users being compromised. Initially it was believed that a small number of user's details had been caught out in this incident however in August 2016 it was confirmed that over 60 millions accounts were compromised.
As a service focused towards businesses it is not uncommon for work emails to be used on with Dropbox. If you or any of your employees created an account with their work email address and reused a password they use elsewhere (e.g. for their work email or online service access) your business could become a target for cyber criminals.
Read MoreIf you were a member of LinkedIn in 2012 there is a good chance that your email address and password at the time were compromised. LinkedIn has now taken steps to reset the passwords of all impacted account, however if you simply reused the same password, or you used the email address and password on other sites, you could be at risk of having your accounts compromised.
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