We have a guest writer for the next part of the Email Phishing Primer. Ben one of the support team at Octagon Technology has written about this cyber security threat from his point of view as someone who must advise clients on this issue on a day-to-day basis. Part eight …
Phishing Attacks – It is in the numbers. (pt 6)
I think we have established two key points in previous articles in this Back-to-Basics, Email Phishing Primer: 1 – Threat actors’ primary motivation for sending out phishing emails is financial. 2 – One of the best tactics any organisation can use to defend against phishing attacks is cyber security awareness …
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Email phishing needs bait… (pt 5)
We looked at some of the most common types of email phishing attacks in the last part of this Back-to-Basics mini-series and I had promised you today an article on “size matters”, but I have changed my mind. Every day I read up on the latest threats and developments in …
Email Phishing Attacks
I have published part 4 of my Back-to-Basics mini-series looking at how phishing attacks work and how they impact organisations every day, over on CyberAwake. Phishing Primer – Phishing Types (pt. 4) Here are parts 1 to 3: Phishing Primer – Social Engineering (pt. 1) Phishing Primer – Social Engineering …
Something extra for the weekend.
“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 …
