The Port of Tyne has confirmed it has been a victim of a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) cyber-attack. Port of Tyne website hit by cyber attack – BBC News Your takeaway This type of attack is mainly targeted to disrupt the operation of an organisation’s online services – denying access to …
Why Cyber Security Awareness Training is Importatnt?
Whatever technical defences you (and I) rely on, there is a probability that the threat actors will find ways to bypass them: Microsoft 365 anti-phishing feature can be bypassed with CSS (bleepingcomputer.com) If the phishing email gets as far as your team member’s inbox, they had better be able to …
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Fake Authenticator
Multi-factor Authentication – MFA – if you are unsure how this cyber security tool contributes to your security, then have a read of this: If you do know how important MFA is, then you will realise that a fake MFA app would cyber security chaos. Of course, the threat actors …
What’s in your email?
This article started life in couple of ways. Over on CyberAwake I re-ran an article from summer 2022, looking at how some information, useful to a threat actor, could leak out of your organisation this summer, just because of the use of a simple setting in Outlook: The Out-Of-Office Email …
Lost nearly everything!
I was reading about the hack of the international telecoms giant AT&T last week, but I noticed the headline of this article about it on the BBC today, that clearly sums up the hack. Hackers steal call records of ‘nearly all’ AT&T customers – BBC It is the ‘nearly all’ …
