Category: Cyber Security

What the letter says On 15 April 2026, Liz Kendall, Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, and Dan Jarvis, Security Minister at the Cabinet Office and Home Office, issued a joint open letter to UK business leaders. The subject was direct: the threat your business faces in cyber space is changing, and the response...

Why Email Is Still the Most Common Entry Point Despite decades of awareness, email remains the starting point for around 90% of cyber attacks. The reason is straightforward: email is the primary communication channel for almost every business, which means every employee with an inbox is a potential target. Attackers do not need to find a...

The Human Element in Cyber Security You may have invested in firewalls, password policies, and software updates. But what happens when those measures are bypassed through the behaviour of your own staff? Research shows that more than 65% of employees claim to follow cyber security rules only sometimes or never. That gap between policy and practice...

A Technique Designed to Bypass Security Filters Email security filters are good at blocking known malicious files. Cyber criminals have responded by sending deliberately corrupted files instead. A corrupted Word document arrives in your inbox, and when you open it, Microsoft Word automatically attempts a repair. The document then appears entirely normal, with nothing to suggest...

The Scam That Starts With a Flooded Inbox A cyber crime technique is circulating that uses a combination of email flooding and fake IT support calls to trick employees into granting remote access to their devices. The attack follows a consistent pattern: first, a staff member’s inbox is flooded with spam emails, making it effectively unusable....

What Is Malvertising? Malvertising, short for malicious advertising, is the use of online adverts to deliver malware, steal credentials, or defraud users. The attacks range from fake technical support scams to drive-by downloads that install malicious software without a single click. What makes malvertising particularly dangerous for businesses is that adverts can appear on entirely legitimate, well-known...

The Problem With Dormant Accounts When an employee leaves, their accounts do not always leave with them. In the rush of day-to-day operations, deactivating old logins is an easy thing to overlook. Research indicates that almost half of businesses have accounts that are no longer actively managed, sitting unused but still accessible. An account nobody is monitoring...

The Scale of the Problem The rate at which employees are falling for phishing scams has tripled compared to the previous year. That is not simply because phishing is more common, although it is. It is because the attacks have become harder to distinguish from genuine communications, and they now appear across far more channels than...

Why Smaller Businesses Are at Greater Risk It is tempting to assume fraud is a problem for large organisations with complex systems and valuable data. The reality is the opposite. Smaller businesses are often more exposed precisely because they lack the layers of protection that larger companies have in place. No dedicated security team, minimal fraud...