Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
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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This story was first posted on 25 March 2022 This story This attack used classic social engineering tactics – the hackers posed as recruiters for a dream job or set up a bogus websites aimed at financial and crypto-currency industries – to exploit a remote code vulnerability in Google Chrome. …
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We are always insisting that our clients always use multi-factor authentication (MFA) for absolutely every service they use. It is a prerequisite of any client we manage Microsoft 365 for that MFA is activated and enforced for everyone of their users. However, of course, there are ways that hackers exploit …
Security Theatre – is a term I first heard at Napier during the lectures and now I know where it came from, Bruce Schneier. I use the term all the time when discussing cyber security with clients, trying to move them from theatre to real cyber security. One example, putting …
Just before we get to the James Webb space telescope. I prepare these Friday offerings during the week as I see something interesting. Once posted on a Friday, it is inevitable I then see something else, on Friday afternoon – which was the case with the James Webb initial alignment …
