Cryptominer Alert: How a Student Exploited a Lab Environment
In today’s digital age, many educational institutions rely on innovative platforms to make hands-on learning more accessible. A client providing a SaaS (Software as a Service) platform for educational purposes faced an unexpected challenge. Their…
Common Issues and Robust Solutions: Enhancing Security in Fintech Projects
Why Analyse Your Code?Security is paramount in RegTech and FinTech projects. Even when designed with security in mind, software solutions become vulnerable and less secure over time. For example, problems may arise in used libraries…
5 Reasons to Update Your Rails Application In 2021
Though in these times of anxiety and uncertainty, it is easy for software maintenance to inadvertently be put on the back burner, if you are currently utilising a Ruby on Rails (RoR) application, your software…
The Amazon EKS Access Trap
The Amazon EKS Access Trap: How Not to Lose Control Over Your Own Clusters While some will have already worked with the Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) — and are therefore perfectly familiar with this…
Information Security: Trends and Challenges
To be the ultimate software provider, you have to be willing to meet all aspects of your customers’ needs. This is why in addition to developing software, SPG offer vital information security audits of both…
Meltdown and Spectre: How Everyone Is Affected
Although it may have been dubbed the "worst bug ever," for many years, the mechanism behind security vulnerabilities Meltdown and Spectre was widely regarded as a cornerstone of modern processor design.It was only at the…
Plan & Prevent: The Secret to Overcoming a Ransomware Attack
Last May, we watched in bewilderment as our already crippled NHS was dealt yet another blow — an unprecedented cyber attack was causing chaos and disruption in one in five NHS trusts across England, and…