Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
The holiday season is drawing to a close, but this scam that Bruce Schneier writes about will work at any time of the year. Baggage Tag Scam – Schneier on Security Your Takeaway This type of cyber-attack involving something that you should keep private, but you let get into the …
To get back in the swing of things after the summer break, let’s look at a particularly nasty cyber-attack – sextortion. To do this I am going to direct you to a series of articles on SANS Internet Storm by Jan Kopriva, looking at the attacks and how the money …
We call them scams – which brings to mind Robert Redford and Paul Newman in The Sting – but in reality, these are cyber-crimes with big pay days for the criminals and financial hardship for the victims. It can be difficult to spot the next trend in this type of …
The scammers – sorry, cyber criminals – who masquerade as the delivery firm Evri, have been up to their old social engineering tricks again! A couple of weeks back, whilst waiting for a delivery by Evri, I received a scam text message and I wrote about that experience here: Delivery …
My personal delivery scam. I was working at my desk the other day, thinking about stopping for lunch, when I got the following text message: Now I was waiting for a delivery, I had ordered a camping kettle from AliExpress, but the last time I looked it was not scheduled …
