“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 …
It is a while since I have written about Ransomware
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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Social Engineering is real and costs organisations money – get your team trained.
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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HTML emails
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. …