The Cyber and Fraud Centre is hitting the road with their Trusted Partner, Consider IT, to deliver a series of events for Public and Third sector organisations during CyberScotland Week. These events will focus on discussing some key cyber security topics you and your organisation or charity should be considering for 2024.
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Using the Sensitive Data Leak scenario from the National Cyber Security Centre’s Exercise in a Box toolkit, the Cyber and Fraud Centre’s team of Ethical Hackers will challenge your data protection policies and processes in a discussion based exercise aimed at improving your organisation’s resilience to extortion and sensitive data leaks.
This discussion will be led by CENSIS’s Marketing Manager, Siân Williams, who is responsible for CENSIS’s annual Technology Summit conference. The conversation will explore what it takes to run a great technology-focused event of any size – from smaller workshops and meetups to larger scale conferences.
The Cyber and Fraud Centre – Scotland is running a cyber security roadshow for Stirlingshire Voluntary Enterprise. The team will focus on discussing some key cyber security topics you and your organisation or charity should be considering for 2023-2024. Everything discussed will tie in with additional resources available and will help you fully utilise these within your own organisation or charity.
Digital skimming is the action of stealing credit card information or payment card data from customers of an online store. The transaction data is intercepted during the online purchase checkout process, without customers noticing anything unusual.
Digital skimming attacks are rising. The attacks can go undetected for a long time. When a breach is eventually discovered, it can bring reputational damage for the online store, because the users will question the safety of the service.
Black Friday and Cyber Monday have quickly escalated to be the peak pre-Christmas sale. While this benefits those shopping for Christmas, it has opened new avenues for cyber criminals to target their victims. As our inboxes are flooded with promotional emails and discount codes, it can become difficult to distinguish genuine emails from scams.
So, whether it’s Black Friday, Cyber Monday or any other day, online shoppers must be vigilant when making purchases. We’ve set out our top tips to help protect you this season from criminals and scams:
In today’s digital world, cyber threats are a constant threat to businesses and organisations of all sizes and sectors. A cyber security incident response plan is a crucial tool for effectively managing and mitigating the impact of cyber attacks.
The CyberScotland Technical Bulletin will provide you with information about updates, exploits and countermeasures.
• Microsoft Patch Tuesday
• Google Calendar ‘RAT’ Exploit
• Malvertisers using Google Ads
Delivered by CyberScotland partner Skills Development Scotland (SDS), the national skills agency, along with a wide range of local and national partners, Scottish Careers Week features events and activities to help people of all ages explore, understand and manage their career choices, and the services and resources available to support them.