Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Last week I wrote about a technically advanced, highly sophisticated cyber-attack in Hong Kong, that netted the attackers $25m – it all started with some simple social engineering pretexting. You may not have $25m in your bank account but here is the state of play of deep fake hacking What …
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Here is an interesting article from the National Cyber Security Centre about whether you should trust public QR codes. Now we have had experience with this. One of our clients found that someone had stuck a new QR code over the one they displayed in their window. When I investigated, …
That is a long title, but for this well financed, hi-tech cyber-attack it is appropriate. A worked at a multi-national company in Hong Kong was persuaded to transfer $200 million Hong Kong dollars to a variety of accounts, having been reassured by a group video call with the company’s CFO …
Facebook is a vital tool on most organisation’s marketing plan – so the Facebook credentials are as important as the ones for the bank and Microsoft 365. Threat actors targeting personal accounts with their phishing campaigns could also catch your business account details. Watch out for “I can’t believe he …
Let’s start the “Wednesday Bit” for 2024 with a tale of phishing emails, but first… I hope you had a Happy Christmas and New Year. Diana and I did. We did take some time off, spent it with family, travelled a bit and paid rather less attention to our email …
