Secplicity Blog - Cybersecurity Insights

4 Major UK CyberAttacks and the Year Isn’t Over Yet

Cyberattacks have become the new normal, but 2025 has been particularly brutal for UK businesses. We’re not even through the year, and already four major incidents have shaken industries, disrupted communities, and forced us to think harder about how we deal with cyber threats. Here’s what’s…

Code Red (2001): The Worm That Defaced Websites

While the world was captivated by the first Harry Potter movie, cybercriminals were busy launching one of the first major web server worms. What Was Happening in the World: The 9/11 attacks in the United States profoundly shifted global security policies, increasing focus on cybersecurity and…

How Servers Serve Content

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Computers seem to be virtually limitless in their abilities – they can send and receive digital information, serve content via many defined protocols, compute algorithms much faster than a human can, and even provide countless hours of fun and entertainment. One very common use of computers is…

Networking Basics

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Computers are a great tool and provide many perks to their users; they can perform tasks in a rather impressively fast manner, potentially offer paperless offices, and you’re even able to play computer games…of course not during working time! Aside from these great benefits, however, how useful…

What Is a Port? (and Why Should I Block It?)

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A port is a made-up, or logical, endpoint for a connection, and ports allow the Internet to handle multiple applications over the same wires. Your system figures out how to treat data coming at it partially by looking at what port the data is destined for.