Attachments are a favourite attack vector

It obvious that for businesses to work they will be constantly exchanging email with clients, suppliers and internally and that many of these emails will contain important attachments. If we recognise this then so do the bad actors and they will exploit this business function if they can.

Some attachments add convenient functionality to our lives such as the calendar invitations – this article shows how even these can contain a malicious package.

This is also a geek Dad article!

Here is the article – quite technical but worth reading.

Great protection against these types of social engineering attacks comes from great training top to bottom in a company. With our experience at Smart Thinking Solutions we can provide this – and help to guide a board to the right decisions about cyber security.