Author: cyberdotuk

Cyber crime can be pretty indiscriminate, with businesses of all sizes falling victim to attacks. For smaller businesses it can be particularly challenging to receive good cyber security information and advice. With this in mind, I contributed to an article that explores:

• top cyber crime predictions for 2017
• what small businesses can do to better-protect themselves
• the future of cyber crime – what’s on the horizon?

Read what myself and other cyber security professionals have to say about ransomware, the Internet of Things, spear-phishing, Artificial Intelligence, and more.

By Dr Jessica Barker

I wrote an article for The Guardian on data privacy and security at work, and what you can do to better-protect your information. Check it out here.

By Dr Jessica Barker

Most people in the UK returned to work this week after the festive break and I joined Radio 2’s Drivetime show, presented by Simon Mayo, to talk about one of the pitfalls: forgetting your passwords, having not logged in for a couple of weeks.

Take a listen to my interview with Simon Mayo below for my thoughts and tips on what makes a more secure password (and why) and how to cope with many complicated passwords at once (if you don’t want to use a password manager).

 

My parting advice in the interview is the importance of two-factor authentication, for advice and support in doing this, check out this website.

By Dr Jessica Barker

Last night Yahoo announced another huge data breach, this one dating from 2013 and including information from 1 billion accounts. The information may have included names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, hashed passwords (using MD5 so pretty trivial to crack) and, in some cases, encrypted or unencrypted security questions and answers. This follows the news in September of this year that information associated with 500m Yahoo accounts was breached in 2014.

I did a few radio interviews on the story this morning but wanted to expand on my thoughts. I made a video earlier in which I talk about: Read More

We’ve just had Black Friday and Cyber Monday, which are no longer limited to the days themselves but many sales spanning at least a week. Figures suggest that retailers have had very strong sales: Barclaycard has reported record numbers of transactions on Black Friday and online retailers have indicated that Black Friday and Cyber Monday have surpassed their expectations and broken record sales from previous years. In the UK, online sales are expected to have exceeded £1.27 billion on Black Friday alone. Read More

I’ve been commenting in the media a fair bit recently. I like to do this when my schedule allows, it’s a lot of fun and, being passionate about my job, I love to talk about cyber security whenever I can. It’s an honour that I get opportunities at a national, and even international, level to raise awareness both of cyber security issues in general, but also of the industry as a career.

However, as it’s been an especially busy few months with my consultancy work and speaking events, I haven’t had as much time to post about the media appearances once I’ve done them. So, this is a summary of some of my recent commentary. Read More