“Beacuase It’s Friday” has been published for this week – Because It’s Friday – Electronic Mail | Smart Thinking Solutions – but as I was reading the cyber security news this morning this page came up on my BBC News feed. A BBC Newsround report from 1992 about the Michelangelo …
Social Engineering is real and costs organisations money – get your team trained.
First let’s get a definition of social engineering: Social engineering is the art of manipulating people to give up confidential information. The types of information compromised can vary, but when organisations are targeted, the criminals are usually trying to trick you into giving them your credentials for secure systems you …
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HTML emails
For those of you of a certain age, do you remember when we went from plain text email to rich content html emails? Of course, by rich content I mean some bold and italic text and some images! Here is a new attack using old technology – called Kobold Letters. …
Threat actors target MFA
Whatever you read here in a few moments – it is my opinion that MFA (Multi-factor authentication) still remains a key tool in protecting your team’s credentials and defending your information. MFA under attack There have always been weaknesses in and attacks against, some very simple such as just annoying …