Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
“Beacuase It’s Friday” has been published for this week – Because It’s Friday – Electronic Mail | Smart Thinking Solutions – but as I was reading the cyber security news this morning this page came up on my BBC News feed. A BBC Newsround report from 1992 about the Michelangelo …
Once ransomware gets into an organisation, usually through some type of phishing attack, that organisation will have a problem that will cost it money and will damage its reputation. So, anything that makes it easier for ransomware attacks to flourish and increase has to be bad news for every organisation …
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First let’s get a definition of social engineering: Social engineering is the art of manipulating people to give up confidential information. The types of information compromised can vary, but when organisations are targeted, the criminals are usually trying to trick you into giving them your credentials for secure systems you …
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For those of you of a certain age, do you remember when we went from plain text email to rich content html emails? Of course, by rich content I mean some bold and italic text and some images! Here is a new attack using old technology – called Kobold Letters. …
I wrote about a phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) earlier this week – Threat actors target MFA – here is another one that is active on both iPhones and Android phones. New Darcula phishing service targets iPhone users via iMessage (bleepingcomputer.com) One of the main cyber security issues with PhaaS is that relatively …
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Whatever you read here in a few moments – it is my opinion that MFA (Multi-factor authentication) still remains a key tool in protecting your team’s credentials and defending your information. MFA under attack There have always been weaknesses in and attacks against, some very simple such as just annoying …
The threat actors do not stand still when it comes to cyber-attacks, they are constantly evolving new attack vectors as we start to understand and combat the current ones. Keeping up with these changes, especially when it comes to phishing emails – which is one of the most common ways …
