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More than 200 cyber attacks with theft of personal data reported to Irish authorities in a year

There have been more than 200 cyber attacks on Irish companies in which data was accessed or stolen by hackers in the last 12 months, the DPC has confirmed.

Brian Honan speaks to The Journal about the fact that there are others that go unreported..

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February 22, 2023|

Warnings were issued over a log-in system used by Cork university in weeks before cyber attack

“Victim shaming forgets that what we want to do is encourage people to share their experiences, so that we can all learn and be better at securing what we’ve learned from other people,” Brian Honan speaks to The Journal about the MTU cyber attack.

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February 22, 2023|

For #DataPrivacyWeek the team speak to privacy expert Valerie Lyons about consumer awareness, AI’s impact on data privacy and the future of investment in privacy

Our COO Dr. Valerie Lyons (PhD, MBs, BSc, CISSP, CDPSE) speaks to Infosecurity Magazine for their #DataPrivacyDay podcast, sharing her expertise on data privacy.

Valerie covers topics such as the real-world impact of data privacy legislation, AI’s affect on privacy, and how privacy should be part of CSR for organisations (starting 12 minutes in).

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January 26, 2023|

Infosecurity Magazine Webinar: How a Threat Response Unit Unmasks a Hacker

A new hacker has been uncovered – Venom Spider – and in this session the Threat Response Unit will tell you how they unmasked the cybercrime gang.

During this session a threat response unit will share how they did it and what they uncovered when chasing down the malware supplier for two of Russia’s top cybercrime gangs. A panel of cybersecurity experts including Brian Honan, discuss how this fits into the broader threat landscape, what actions should be taken based on the TTPs highlighted and how these groups will continue to evolve.

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December 12, 2022|

Infosecurity Magazine Webinar: How a Threat Response Unit Unmasks a Hacker

A new hacker has been uncovered – Venom Spider – and in this session the Threat Response Unit will tell you how they unmasked the cybercrime gang.

During this session a threat response unit will share how they did it and what they uncovered when chasing down the malware supplier for two of Russia’s top cybercrime gangs. A panel of cybersecurity experts including Brian Honan, discuss how this fits into the broader threat landscape, what actions should be taken based on the TTPs highlighted and how these groups will continue to evolve.

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December 1, 2022|

RTE News: Interview about An Garda Síochána taking down the “iSpoof.cc” website

BH Consulting CEO Brian Honan was interviewed on the RTE Six One News about the success of International law enforcement authorities, including An Garda Síochána, in taking down the iSpoof.cc website used by international criminals to defraud €115m from people across the world.

Listen to the interview via the RTÉ Player (start time 24 mins/30 secs).

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November 24, 2022|

Newstalk Radio

Our CEO, Brian Honan featured on Newstalk’s lunchtime news at 12 p.m. to discuss the arrests that had been made following a sting operation that included the Garda National Economic Crime Bureau and the Garda National Cyber Crime Bureau. They successfully targeted criminals which were using a website that made ‘spoof’ phone calls appear to come from a genuine number.

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November 24, 2022|

Six One News

Our CEO Brian Honan spoke to RTE News about the importance in having the FIRST Conference here in Dublin. Over 1,000 cyber security professionals involved in incident response are spending the week here sharing experiences and building stronger relationships to help strengthen the fight against cyber crime

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June 28, 2022|

HSE still has 30,000 computers running Windows 7 six months after devastating cyber attack

The HSE is still running obsolete Windows 7 on nearly 30,000 computers, six months after it was hit by a devastating cyber attack. The out-of-date PCs have been branded as “potentially vulnerable” by IT security experts.

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September 22, 2021|

How security leaders can build emotionally intelligent cybersecurity teams

How a leader motivates their team, gathers, and uses information, makes decisions, manages change initiatives, and handles crises is referred to as “leadership style”, and is known to be a key influencing factor in team dynamics. Daniel Goleman, an American psychologist, believed that at the heart of relationship between leadership style and team dynamics lay a series of traits referred to as “emotional intelligence” (EQ).

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July 28, 2021|

1 in 5 companies fail PCI compliance assessments of their infrastructure

According to a recent poll by SentryBay, the infrastructure of over 21% of surveyed companies has failed key PCI compliance assessments, designed to assist them to maintain high security standards when processing customer card payments. In addition, a further 29.3% said that they had no confidence in their own company’s compliance when it came to PCI DSS.

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July 13, 2021|

Russian-based hackers launch cyberattack on at least 200 IT management firms in the US and demand $5M in ransom despite Biden’s threat to Putin of ‘retaliation’

Russian-based hackers have launched a cyberattack on at least 200 information technology management firms in the United States and demanded up to $5 million in ransom, it has been revealed.

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July 3, 2021|

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