Recently it seems almost every week we hear reports about cyber-attacks in mainstream news, and they’re just the big ones that are discovered or reported.
Malwarebytes, the well-known cyber security experts have said, “compared to the same time last year, business detections of ransomware have risen more than 500%”.
But it can be said that businesses’ were not sceptics to the idea.
With the threat of fines under GDPR coming into effect last year, we witnessed a lot of companies taking drastic actions to defend against leaking personal data.
Securing every point of entry to their data systems and deleting that which they didn’t need to keep.
We can’t say for sure how much has been paid out to hackers that has compromised the IT systems of companies internationally.
Ransomware attack locked them out of their own computers.
The Bitcoin payment is said to have been made between the 10th and the 24th June.
If you are concerned about the state of security in your business, we can do a free assessment and supply the software and training to keep your company data and IT systems secure, including incident response.
Michael
Michael is responsible for brand awareness, GDPR compliance and client support both on-site and remote. He can also deliver one-to-one training for our clients on how to use a Mac, as well as troubleshooting any problems clients have with their Mac computers.
If you would like to talk to Michael about GPDR compliance or Mac-related issues, please let me know and I will ask him to contact you and answer your questions.
Kamila
General Manager
Octagon Technology Ltd
