Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
This post is about one of my articles from 2023, which having just started on an IT and Cyber Security Audit for an organisation, I realised was relevant to the new project. All the board members and senior managers got a link to this article: Cyber Security The Layer Cake …
Threat actors are always looking for good sources of valid (stolen) email and password combinations – and there are many hundreds of millions available to them. 361 million stolen accounts leaked on Telegram added to HIBP (bleepingcomputer.com) Once they have these credentials, the threat actors will be trying them out …
We looked at some of the most common types of email phishing attacks in the last part of this Back-to-Basics mini-series and I had promised you today an article on “size matters”, but I have changed my mind. Every day I read up on the latest threats and developments in …
I have published part 4 of my Back-to-Basics mini-series looking at how phishing attacks work and how they impact organisations every day, over on CyberAwake. Phishing Primer – Phishing Types (pt. 4) Here are parts 1 to 3: Phishing Primer – Social Engineering (pt. 1) Phishing Primer – Social Engineering …
Microsoft’s VBScript has been over taken by both new technology and threat actors – it is time for it to go. Microsoft to start killing off VBScript in second half of 2024 – BleepingComputer I have written about the cyber security consequences of such built in functionality and what happens …
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