Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Google is recognising the impact its services have on the success of smaller businesses, and how scammers are taking advantage to exploit those same businesses. The article covers the legal actions Google has taken; the scams that are being run in its name and advice on how to deal with …
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I published an article yesterday on CyberAwake looking at how gift cards are misused by threat actors: How Gift Cards are exploited by Cyber Criminals – CyberAwake
Threat actors have to find ways of breaking down our cyber security training – that is where social engineering comes in. They want to find some way to get you to do what they want – this usually means exploiting your trust, but a bt of stress in there to …
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McAfee Fake Antivirus Phishing Campaign is Back! – SANS Internet Storm Center …and… New zero-day vulnerability in Windows being exploited Phishing emails in the wild – how can this infect you? The story of a phishing email I have written a lot lately about phishing campaigns, all of which have …
Zero-day attacks will always be a serious issue for anyone involved in cyber security. A zero-day cyber attack is one that happens in the gap between the hackers discovering a vulnerability in a system and putting an exploit out in the wild and the software vendors, discovering the same software …
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