BH Consulting's Security Watch Blog
Various news media are reporting that over 30,000 email accounts belonging to users of web based email providers such as Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, Hotmail and Aol (to name a few) have been compromised. It is unclear yet as to the exact nature of the compromise. Some reports state that the accounts were compromised by a [...]
Today is Safer Internet Day and once again we at BH Consulting are proud to support this worthy event. Safer Internet Day aims to make children, teenagers and young adults more aware of the dangers they could face when online. This year the focus is on the dangers posed by social networks. In Ireland the day is [...]
News today that the European Parliament have voted in favour of continuing the Safer Internet Day initiative for another five years. Safer Internet Day aims to make children, teenagers and young adults more aware of the dangers they could face when online. BH Consulting have been supporters of Safer Internet Day and I am delighted to [...]
Interesting article over at Network World explaining why security professionals need to change the way we talk to business people, and the public, in order for them to become more aware of the latest security threats. What is interesting is the author uses the 1958 movie “The Blob” as a background to the piece.
Over the summer I worked on a project with ENISA to produce a white paper “Obtaining Support and Funding From Senior Management“. The paper is now available on the ENISA website. This is very important paper as one of the most important things to ensure the success of any information securtiy awareness programme is to [...]
Two years ago ENISA published an excellent guide on how to raise information security awareness within your organisations. A new version of the guide is now available and well worth the time taken to download and read it. Security awareness can be one of the most effective defence measures you can invest in. Once you [...]
As part of Global Security Week a new website has been launched to help promote awareness amongst home and business users. The Surfingsafer website provides information on a range of computer security products that are available. The site also has links to best practise and provides advise on how to protect your systems from cyber [...]
Rebecca Herold has come up five practical and easy steps that you can use to take part in this years event, be that at home with family and friends or in your workplace.
Today say the launch of the Olympic games and here’s hoping that the rest of the games are as good as the opening ceremony. But what has the Olympic games got to do with information security? Well here are some of the issues that you should consider over the duration of the event; Already a [...]
The Small Firms Association released their 6th annual crime survey which focuses on how crime impacts on small businesses in Ireland. An interesting point in the press release highlights that the companies surveyed reported an increase in online crime with the average cost on an incident being €2,250 and it appears the largest cost was [...]