2014 saw a significant jump in the quantity, quality and prevalence of point-of-sale malware attacks. These malicious creations, commonly referred to as PoS RAM Scrapers are designed to compromise the terminals used by businesses the world over to carry out retail transactions. Tens of millions of payment card details are routinely stolen, sometimes in a…

Much of the concern around mobile operating systems and services has focused on the risks inherent in the Android platform. The openness and widespread nature of the ecosystem has certainly led to it being both the most widespread, the most widely targeted, and the most successfully exploited. Google’s Android has traditionally had a less rigorous…

For the final blog post in the series supporting the release of our Q3 Threat Roundup “Vulnerabilities Under Attack” I was asked to write “an analysis of security challenges faced by users.” Fortunately I have the source material of the Threat Roundup to stick to because really, that’s a subject deserving of a series in…

Of course we all know that Father Christmas is out there, with his happy elves, keeping tabs on us throughout the year. In fact every year a considerable part of my time each day is spent going through my activities and making sure that nothing I have done will mean that I end up on…

It is perhaps telling that when preparing this blog post, I had to add the word “wearables” to the dictionary of my word processor. We are still at the very beginning of the journey into an interconnected “Internet of Everything” but the truth is that every beginning exists in its own unique circumstances. The circumstances…