Category: Advent IM Blog

• by Ellie Hurst
• Advent IM Blog

A review from Advent IM Security Consultant, Chris Cope. The TalkTalk hack has left another major UK business reeling from a cyber attack and customers angry as, once again, there is a possibility that sensitive information is now in the public domain.  The telecommunications company decided to take its own website offline on Wednesday following […]

• by Ellie Hurst
• Advent IM Blog

We are halfway through Get Safe Online Week and although we are generally business-focused, we felt it was very important to get involved and to issue some advice that everyone can use. So we have some Personal User and some Business User advice below for you, Courtesy of Del Brazil, Advent IM Security Consultant. #GetSafeOnlineWeek Here in […]

• by Ellie Hurst
• Advent IM Blog

Insider Threat certainly isn’t going away, is it? Reading the continual survey results and news items I see published, it will still be an issue for a long time to come. We know that a lot of the Risk that Insiders bring can be mitigated with good policy and process combined with tech that is fit for purpose. But […]

• by Ellie Hurst
• Advent IM Blog

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• by Ellie Hurst
• Advent IM Blog

European Court of Justice has ruled that transatlantic data sharing agreement is invalid. What does this mean for UK businesses that utilise US datacentres or Cloud services? Advent IM Director Mike Gillespie, “There are issues arising from this ruling that require the urgent attention of UK businesses and they need to be aware of the […]

• by Ellie Hurst
• Advent IM Blog

So this week came the worrying news that mobile phones attached to drones can hack Wi-Fi devices and steal our data. That Star Wars script of yesteryear could be coming into its own! Oh hang on … that was Clones not Drones J But seriously, the use of drones in warfare is becoming more and […]

• by Ellie Hurst
• Advent IM Blog

An opinion piece post from Advent IM Consultant, Del Brazil TOR is a service that is freely downloadable that assists in providing anonymity or improves privacy for users who wish to keep, among other things, their internet location secure.  In essence it provides a defensive mechanism against traffic analysis, network surveillance and assists in protecting […]

• by Ellie Hurst
• Advent IM Blog

From Dale Penn, Advent IM Security Consultant.. The recent hacks of Bit defender and Hacking Team just go to show that if you don’t address the basics you are going to leave yourself vulnerable to attack. So what did they do wrong that we can learn from and reduce the risk to our organisations? Both […]

• by Ellie Hurst
• Advent IM Blog

A guest post from Dale Penn, an Advent IM Security Consultant – taking a look at vehicle hacking and questioning how much we really need to fear. Even though the title is a tribute to a classic, well-loved comedy, the subject I am about to discuss is no joke! All of us have seen recent […]

• by Ellie Hurst
• Advent IM Blog

Another great post from one of our consultants, this time from Dale Penn on the topic of Social Engineering. Introduction Social engineering is still the most prolific and successful method of hacking. It is a non-technical attack that relies on a user being tricked or coerced into some form of action which presents the attacker […]