The reason a “single sentence solution” is no defence is that the cyber criminals have exploited the natural human tendency to trust.
There is no “one sentence solution” for defending yourself or your organisation against cyber attacks via email
Patch Tuesday
Patch Tuesday was yesterday – and I am patching away as should you be. Microsoft March 2022 Patch Tuesday – SANS Internet Storm Centre Microsoft patches 71 security vulnerabilities, 3 critical • The Register Watch out for those patches for Exchange Server if you have one. I thought I had …
Here is a story from someone who is happy to see spam email!
Infostealer in a Batch File – SANS Internet Storm Centre The catch is that Xme is a researcher at SANS Internet Storm. Â Am IÂ the only one to be happy when I see my catch-all mailboxes full of junk? Xme – ISC Handler In this example of a phishing email they …
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The new Cyber War
Joyce Hakmeh and Esther Naylor at The Guardian have written an opinion piece about the cyber security experts who have moved from a “virtual cold war” to being combatants in a “virtual hot war”. How the tech community has rallied to Ukraine’s cyber-defence | Joyce Hakmeh and Esther Naylor | …
Amazon Alexa hijacked but it is now patched – updated
This was originally posted on 4 March 2022 I put this more academic article up, as a Saturday read, for some background into home automation and smart devices: Home automation and Smart Devices – some questions to be answered – Smart Thinking Solutions Now today there is an article on …
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