British Archives - IT Security Guru https://www.itsecurityguru.org/tag/british/ The Site for our Community Mon, 01 Feb 2016 12:15:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.itsecurityguru.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/cropped-Guru_Transparent-PNG-1-32x32.png British Archives - IT Security Guru https://www.itsecurityguru.org/tag/british/ 32 32 What are the average earnings of a UK cyber criminal? https://www.itsecurityguru.org/2016/02/01/what-are-the-average-earnings-of-a-uk-cyber-criminal/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-are-the-average-earnings-of-a-uk-cyber-criminal Mon, 01 Feb 2016 12:15:20 +0000 http://www.itsecurityguru.org/?p=14437 A report from Palo Alto Networks has revealed that UK adversaries earn an average of just £8,600 from one successful attack. This is approximately £2,000 less that their German and US counterparts, who can earn £10,400 and £10,900 respectively. On average adversaries earn just over £20,000 a year, compared with a cybersecurity professional who can […]

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]]> A report from Palo Alto Networks has revealed that UK adversaries earn an average of just £8,600 from one successful attack. This is approximately £2,000 less that their German and US counterparts, who can earn £10,400 and £10,900 respectively. On average adversaries earn just over £20,000 a year, compared with a cybersecurity professional who can earn up to four times as much.
The report also found 75% of adversaries in the UK are opportunistic when choosing to launch a cyber attack on a particular organisation. The opportunistic nature of UK adversaries, coupled with their reduced profit, makes them a considerable threat as they search for easy targets to make up their margin.
However, the same research showed that if businesses can increase the time it takes for an adversary to mount a successful attack by just 40 hours – via proper systems and precautions which hinder the threat actor – as much as 60% of attacks can be eliminated.
As such, to ensure they don’t fall victim, businesses must make themselves a hard target, and adopt a prevention-first mind-set, instead of a detection and incident response approach. A prevention-first attitude can slow down a cyberattacker enough for them to abandon the attack in favour of an easier target.
Ultimately, the adoption of a prevention-first mind-set will make it economically unviable for criminals to attack a business, say their experts.
 
You can read more information on the economics on a cyber attack by downloading the report “Flipping the Economics of Attacks” here: http://media.paloaltonetworks.com/lp/ponemon/report.html

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]]> BT broadband in broad-based brownout and TITSUP incidents https://www.itsecurityguru.org/2015/07/29/bt-broadband-in-broad-based-brownout-and-titsup-incidents/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bt-broadband-in-broad-based-brownout-and-titsup-incidents Wed, 29 Jul 2015 09:19:27 +0000 http://www.itsecurityguru.org/?p=11949 If you can’t reach a chum in the UK, chances are they’ve fallen victim to a substantial outage that’s hit BT’s voice and broadband services. Or a Total Inability To Support Usual Performance (TITSUP) incident. The carrier appears to be suffering from two issues, the first reported to us by Reg readers Colin and Neil […]

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]]> If you can’t reach a chum in the UK, chances are they’ve fallen victim to a substantial outage that’s hit BT’s voice and broadband services. Or a Total Inability To Support Usual Performance (TITSUP) incident.
The carrier appears to be suffering from two issues, the first reported to us by Reg readers Colin and Neil who’ve complained of very slow downloads, difficulties accessing the Web, dropped packets galore and traceroutes that don’t make it past the home gateway.
A glance at the carrier’s service status page omits mention of the slow access problem, but does reveal 15 outstanding issues including one that’s hitting over 40 communities from Manchester to Newquay.
BT says “A small number of our customers in the areas shown below, may experience a loss of telephone and/or broadband services. We hope to have service restored as quickly as possible and apologise for any inconvenience this may be causing. Services can be affected by a variety of reasons such as damage caused by 3rd parties or cable theft.”
 
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