In April I provided advice to STEP members on how to handle the protection of their online accounts following the revelation of the ‘Heartbleed’ exploit. A new exploit dubbed ‘Shellshock’ was discovered last week and it is widely recognised as being more serious and far reaching than Heartbleed. With the potential to affect everything from… Read More The ‘Shellshock’ IT exploit: what you should do to protect your home and office systems

Last week several STEP members reported receiving suspicious and unsolicited emails from an individual purporting to work in international taxation. What made the spam email particularly unusual was the attention to detail the sender had paid to make it look like legitimate correspondence and the citation of STEP to add credibility to its content. It… Read More If it’s too good to be true, it’s probably just spam

A critical new online security exploit dubbed ‘Heartbleed’ was announced on Monday night after being discovered by a member of the Google security team.  The vulnerability is widely considered to be one of the most serious security flaws in the history of the internet and has been potentially exploitable since December 2011. Heartbleed affects the coding… Read More Heartbleed Exploit: STEP’s response and cyber security measures you should take now