Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Back in February, I wrote an article about some of the social engineering tactics used by attackers when sending out malicious email. I know Diana has spoken about the email cybersecurity threat but I thought today I would take you back to that article as the cybersecurity threat posed by …
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October is Cyber Security Awareness Month, and to celebrate we shall write about different aspects of the subject every day. Today I just want to raise awareness of simple things you can do to protect yourself from dodgy emails. First of all, check the email address carefully. If the email …
The SANS Internet Storm Centre Diary has an interesting, if technical, article about the use and misuse of email forwarding rules. Office 365 Mail Forwarding Rules (and other Mail Rules too) (sans.edu) Why is this of interest to you? As part of my MSc studies we looked at email attacks …
Microsoft Exchange server vulnerabilities On the 5th of January 2021 there was an exploit reported on the Microsoft Exchange server and on the 6th January 2021 the first breach was observed. But nobody really knew anything about it. “The attacker was detected by a group on the 5th of January …
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A classic ploy for an email attack is to make the message so urgent that you do not think carefully before clicking on the link or opening the attachment. The article below illustrates this ploy – the email creates a story where the result of not taking action is the …
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