by Red Goat | Apr 7, 2020 | General
Cyber Volunteers 19 Do you work in cyber security? Why not sign up to volunteer to help protect healthcare providers during the Covid-19 pandemic. Lisa Forte, partner at Red Goat Cyber Security, and Daniel Card set up the Cyber Volunteers 19 programme to help... 
by Red Goat | Mar 17, 2020 | General
Comically Bad Ultrasonic Berry with Lisa Forte Description Do we need more positivity in cybersecurity? And are bananas a type of berry? 🍌Join us, as we ask (and attempt to answer) some of life’s big questions on the show this week. We also roll into... 
by Lisa Forte | Mar 3, 2020 | General
by Red Goat | Feb 4, 2020 | General
Of the three categories of insider threat; theft, fraud and sabotage, fraud is often the most complex, inventive and difficult to detect. This case however, has a certain simplicity to it. The case concerns a Mr Kabbaj who worked for an “unnamed global internet... 
by Red Goat | Feb 4, 2020 | General
LISA FORTE INTERVIEW WITH DIGIT MAGAZINE Lisa Forte, partner and cyber threat specialist at Red Goat Cyber, shares her insights about the ‘insider threat’ and how to protect against it. How has the insider threat evolved in recent years? Firstly, we now live in a... 
by Red Goat | Jan 9, 2020 | General
What happened? Ring, the Amazon owned home-security company, has admitted firing four employees who accessed users’ videos. The employees had access to the video feeds but exceeded their authorised access by viewing them. This has undoubtedly caused embarrassment for... 
by Red Goat | Dec 20, 2019 | General
Friday the 13th is a day that has been long associated with bad omens. This became a reality for almost 30,000 Facebook staff though on Friday the 13th of December. Almost 30,000 employee payroll records were stolen. The theft left information security professionals... 
by Red Goat | Nov 6, 2019 | General
The Tokyo based cyber security company Trend Micro has revealed it has been the victim of a sophisticated insider threat attack. Customer records were accessed and exfiltrated by an employee then used by attackers in a vishing attack on Trend Micro customers.... 
by Red Goat | Nov 5, 2019 | General
The SEC investigator was charged with several crimes including unauthorized computer access and disclosure of confidential information. The defendant, Mr. Cohn, was the MD and Chief Compliance Officer at GBP Capital Holdings. Cohn allegedly accessed compromising... 
by Red Goat | Oct 21, 2019 | General
We have seen a wealth of articles on the security and privacy issues around voice assistants. This week I came across and new and far more concerning article on this by Ars Technica: “Amazon- and Google-approved apps turned both voice-controlled devices into... 