The number of private home routers being duped into living a secret life as part of a botnet or in serving up malicious DNS results to it’s users has seen a surge in the latter half of 2016. It’s thought that the majority of traffic in the DDoS attack on various gaming servers in Christmas 2015 was generated from home routers that had been compromised.
A recent report on Internet Security and cybercrime has shown that UK users are among the most targeted in the world, with both home users and businesses being attacked daily, and over half a billion personal records stolen in 2015.
With more users realising the security benefits of 2-step authentication, the criminals are coming up with new ingenuous ways to break into your account.
Chances are you have filled your Facebook with small snippets of personal information, put together it could be used to build a personal profile that might reveal more than you expect.
The telephone provider Talk Talk has become the victim of a criminal cyber-attack. While Talk Talk are still assessing what data was accessed during the attack, there are a number of steps you can take if you are a Talk Talk customer.
Scam emails pretending to be from the Government Gateway are being set out again. Be careful as they are getting more and more convincing to the casual user.
