Tech Guard

20/12/2023

Your staff are well-trained, they've done multiple rounds of security awareness training, yet they still click on phishing emails - why is this? Stress, distractions and personal circumstances are just some of the factors that can cause this.

In the fast-paced, digitally-driven world of today, individuals who are well-versed in cybersecurity principles still find themselves vulnerable to online threats. A crucial yet often overlooked aspect is the impact of stress and distraction on one’s ability to recognise and respond to cyber threa...

14/09/2023

Have you used an AI chatbot yet? Is your organisation thinking about taking advantage of AI in a professional setting?
With every step forward in technology, we see cyber criminals finding new ways to disrupt our lives. Find out some of the ways in which AI chatbots are being abused to leak user data:

Chatbot scams are likely possibilities in the near future as language models (LMs) become more integrated but little mitigation is happening.

10/08/2023

Up to 10,000 officers and staff members in the PSNI may be affected by a data breach, after a freedom of information request led to an unfortunate, self-inflicted error.

PSNI human error data breach leads to severe reputational damage and leaves many police officers in potential danger.

12/05/2023

Do YOU know how to spot a phishing email? Do you know what spear-phishing is? What about social engineering?

Read our top 5 tips to recognising and correctly dealing with a phishing email, and reduce your risk!

Worried about phishing attacks? Here's how to spot a phishing email and what an employee can do to help keep the company safe.

23/06/2022

Tech Guard is delighted to announce that we have partnered with AdminDroid to offer advanced Microsoft 365 reporting!

AdminDroid offers 1500+ reports and 15+ dashboards to bring your entire Microsoft 365 infrastructure under your radar, allowing you to manage and secure your organisation with better control and visibility in just a few mouse clicks.

Speak to us today if you'd like to learn more about how Tech Guard and AdminDroid can help your organisation:

Office 365 Management Made Easy with AdminDroidAdminDroid offers 1500+ reports and 15+ dashboards to bring your entire Microsoft 365 infrastructure under your radar. With AdminDroid you can manage and secure your organization with better control and visibility in just a few mouse clicks.The tool pro...

01/07/2021

Everyone's talking about ransomware right now, but is your organisation looking out for Business Email Compromise scams? With less face-to-face contact between co-workers, BEC scams are more effective than ever and costing a fortune for small and medium businesses.
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27/04/2021

Can prospective customers contact you via forms on your website? If so, you may need to be aware of this latest phishing attack, which utilises contact forms to bypass email security and deliver credible-look messages (containing info-stealing malware) straight to your inbox.

Read more: https://buff.ly/3nnZwUx

24/03/2021

Fresh off the back of the SolarWinds breach, a new colossal cyber attack has shook the world. Hafnium, a state-sponsored group of hackers from China, are believed to be behind the unauthorised access of tens of thousands of Exchange email servers.
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23/02/2021

Late last year, SolarWinds was the victim of what may well be the largest and most sophisticated cyber attack known to date - and two months later, an alarming number of their customers still haven't patched the vulnerabilities in their SolarWinds products

IT management software giant Solarwinds were the victims of what is believed to be one of the largest cyber attacks yet late last year, sending shivers down the spine of much of the tech world. The attack breached SolarWinds monitoring tool Orion, which allowed the hackers to deliver malicious updat...

11/12/2020

Think ransomware attacks are a thing of the past? Think again.

A new report from CrowdStrike shows that over half of cyber attacks investigated by them in 2020 were ransomware-based, & often the same organisations were attacked multiple times in the same year.
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10/11/2020

British Airways are to pay a record-breaking £20 million fine to the UK Information Commissioner's Office following a major 2018 data breach. They're lucky that they didn't have to pay £150 million instead, which is what the ICO had originally set the fine at.

British Airways now hold the dubious honour of receiving the highest data protection fine that the UK has ever seen, after the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) handed down a record-breaking £20 million fine. The fine could have been much heftier, however, as the ICO fine was originally sla...

27/09/2020

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