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WordPress as a threat to a secure internet – this is why you need to attend our training course – social engineering attacks are everywhere

phishing email threat

It is a long title but it explains exactly what this post is about. The instructions for setting up simple but profitable social engineering and phishing email campaigns are easily available across the ordinary internet, not just the dark web. The software required is free, both the malicious stuff and …

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Even the world’s biggest companies get suckered by social engineering

Both Apple and Meta were the victims of social engineering scams that caused them to simply giveaway user personal information. I am not going to call this sophisticated – actually it was quite simple – the cyber criminals, studied how an Emergency Data Requests (EDR) operated and then spoofed that …

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“…smartphones aren’t really about making our lives easier; they’re about allowing private companies to profit from areas of our lives that were previously closed to them.” Max Fletcher, The Guardian

smartphone apps

The article from which I have taken the quote is further down the page – but please read the rest of the article first, it is relevant. I ran a post about a talk given by Matt Brittin, from Google, about their vision of privacy by design: Privacy by Design …

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