What is a Spambot?
Spambot
is a computer-generated intrusion into the computer systems, aimed at causing
serious data breach, stealing corporate / personal information or causing
sabotage. Who can be involved in this latest attack?
There are 7.5 billion persons worldwide, meaning that the chances that YOUR email is involved is only 10%, that is 1 in 10 email addresses. Very scary, right?
What caused it, what you do and how can you start protecting yourself read on or come to our free session on hardening your business to cyber attacks?
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What can a Spambot Data breach do?
The spambot breach was so big because so many companies are not taking
internet security seriously. Secondly poor security practices by users
have lead to large scale breaches but this is likely to not be the end of the
road for this attack. As you can see from the graphic below, we tested
some of our customer's emails (using https://haveibeenpwned.com/) and found
that 2/5 had been pwned by the spambot. This means that data such
as IP's, passwords and email data was taken.
The IP the unique code that identifies your computer and allows target or adverts or more attacks. Also password data and of course emails. With this most sites use these data to let you login and these sites contain very personal email that can be used to build personalised attacks in the future. This is called a 0-day issue meaning you have 0 days before further attack lead to further data loss or identity theft etc. In our free seminar we how to prevent further attack and how you can prevent future damage to your company.
The IP the unique code that identifies your computer and allows target or adverts or more attacks. Also password data and of course emails. With this most sites use these data to let you login and these sites contain very personal email that can be used to build personalised attacks in the future. This is called a 0-day issue meaning you have 0 days before further attack lead to further data loss or identity theft etc. In our free seminar we how to prevent further attack and how you can prevent future damage to your company.
The breach was mainly caused by poor cyber-security and an
organisation is only as strong as its weakest person.
What is Cyber-security?
Having a
cyber-security is like having a physical security personnel at vantage points
within an organization, especially where safety of works, goods, equipment and
staff is essential. It is the implementation of policies and methods to prevent
attacks on a company’s information systems, which is done to avoid disruption
of the company’s productivity. Not only does cyber-security include controlling
physical access to the system’s hardware, it protects from danger that may come
via network access or the injection of code.
Why is Cyber-security Important?
Cyber-security
is crucial to a business for so many reasons, with the two crucial ones,
namely: breaches and sabotage of security data. Both can have calamitous
effects on a company and/or its clients, with a lot of financial costs
attached.
Data
security breaches can compromise secure information such as:
·
Names and social security numbers
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Credit card and bank details
·
Trade secrets
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Intellectual property
Computer
sabotage serves to disable a company’s computers or network to impede the
company’s ability to conduct business
Many
questions arise at this stage:
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How do we protect ourselves? When do we do it? Who does it for us? Should we
develop someone within or outsource?
If you want to speak to someone face-to-face then come along to
our free 2 hour seminar entitled “Stop being a Cyber Crime Soft
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Article written by Nick Aitalegbe from CRID (www.crid.co.uk/) Centre for Regional and International Development who host a number of well regarded cyber security experts and trainers.
