Defunct botnet shows signs of life – cybersecurity advice for you!

The SANS Internet Storm Diary is reporting that the Emotet botnet, that was taken down earlier this year by worldwide Co-operation of law enforcing has started to show up again on their monitoring. Emotet Returns – SANS This botnet distributes malicious packages via email attachments and then deploys these packages …

Festive Scams – everyone needs to be vigilant and share your knowledge

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I think by now we all understand that hacking and scamming is an operation for profit without conscience or morals. The BBC has this warning article showing that young or old, tech savvy or not everyone can be a victim of theses con-artists. ‘We lost festive savings in family WhatsApp …

Hallowe’en and maybe the hacker god will return from the dead! – #BeCyberSmart

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In 2017 an academic paper1 about printer security highlighted open ports on many different types of printer.  The paper was published on Monday 30 January and the following weekend a hacker using the pseudonym Stackoverflowin searched the internet to find vulnerable printers. The hacker then made his way into over …