Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
This post was first published on 19 April 2022 Following up on the article below, here is a real world example of bug bounties working to improve cybersecurity. The US Government’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) worked with a group of cyber security analysts, who uncovered 122 vulnerabilities in the …
“Smishing” is similar to phishing but instead of using email the cyber criminals tempt you with a text message. Still targeting the usual suspects of your personal information and money. This report on scams and attacks being distributed using sms text messaging is US centric – but what happens over …
SANS Internet Storm Centre has a couple of blog posts looking at the mechanics of a Word document and a PDF both of which are malicious payloads in a phishing email. This is what you are up against! Analyzing a Phishing Word Document – SANS Internet Storm Centre Simple PDF …
Weekly Threat Report 22nd April 2022 – NCSC.GOV.UK
Following up on the two articles I posted yesterday, to give you an awareness of the threat landscape, here are two articles discussing how that landscape is constantly changing. Criminals adopting new methods to bypass improved defenses • The Register Cybercriminals are finding new ways to target cloud environments | …
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