The obvious ways that attackers can find or steal passwords, such as looking over your shoulder when you’re using an ATM or credit card machine or trying obvious passwords such …
Britain is being targeted by many thousands of cyber attacks every hour. For small organisations the worst breaches cost between £65,000 and £115,000 on average and for large organisations the …
The first step in protecting systems from attack is to identify if there are any vulnerabilities. The proliferation of networked computing devices that are embedded in everyday things (often called …
If the password is transmitted from the user to the server as plaintext (what you see is exactly what you get; it isn’t hidden in any way) – it could …
In any discussion of security, there are some basic terms that will be used a lot. This step will introduce you to the basic terminology of information security. CIA The …