Before we go on – hacking competitions are not illegal and many of them are organised across the world each year. They give a chance for the white hat hacking community to improve their skills and can often find flaws in software that benefit all of us. Once a cyber …
Microsoft Exchange server vulnerabilities
Microsoft Exchange server vulnerabilities On the 5th of January 2021 there was an exploit reported on the Microsoft Exchange server and on the 6th January 2021 the first breach was observed. But nobody really knew anything about it. “The attacker was detected by a group on the 5th of January …
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What is Privacy?
So you think you know what “privacy is. You probably know that the GDPR addresses privacy and have discussed privacy as part of your compliance – but did you know there is no definition for privacy included in the regulations? I have written an article on the Octagon blog looking …
If you are under pressure you may make a mistake
A classic ploy for an email attack is to make the message so urgent that you do not think carefully before clicking on the link or opening the attachment. The article below illustrates this ploy – the email creates a story where the result of not taking action is the …
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Between Timbuktu and Timid
I wrote this blog to make some simple suggestions for effective security steps that business owners can take that do not take much time. The title of the blog is a quote from Kurt Vonnegut’s 1959 book The Sirens of Titan. If you look these words up in a dictionary …