BullGuard Blog

There are many notable and notorious hacker groups from the self-styled digital pirates, but now defunct LulzSec, to the infamous Anonymous and Fancy Bear which operates out of Eastern Europe and Russia and is believed to have launched 200 cyber-attacks on the Trump and Biden campaigns over the past year.

There are a couple of slick, professional looking scams, doing the rounds that UK citizens need to be aware of. One claims to be from the NHS the other from Royal Mail.

You’re probably familiar with two-factor authentication (2FA), a security method that uses two different authentication methods at the same time, such as entering a password and then receiving a SMS code on your phone, to verify your identity. It’s a robust security tool that foils attackers who may have got hold of your passwords.

Now that the figures are in by any standard 2020 was a dismal year for cyber protection. Twenty billion personal information records were exposed online, lost or hacked. The number is so big it’s near impossible to visualise. We can picture a 100,000 football fans cramming into a stadium, 30,000 people competing in a marathon and even what $1 ...