I have used the first two parts of this mini-series on Phishing attacks to look at the more general subject of social engineering because phishing is an application of social engineering aimed at you and your organisation. Start to understand the “how” of social engineering and you start to build …
Email problems in the Channel Islands
Guernsey’s Data Protection Commissioner Brent Homan has published a report showing that the leaking of personal data on the island has risen. More than 1,000 people affected by data breaches – BBC The Office of the Data Protection Authority (ODPA) says over 1500 people have been impacted. The reported stated …
Because It’s Friday – Electronic Mail
This video starts off a bit odd – “…by the time I actually met Michael, …I didn’t care what he looked like”. “It [email] could rival the use of the telephone [in corporate business] by 1995.” This is where it all started and not one mention of spam or malicious …
CISA Security Patch Notices
The US government Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) site is one of the “go to places” for me and my team to keep up with vulnerabilities in our client’s software. Although aimed at the US Government and US users it is still really useful. Here is a round-up of …
I am out of the office…
I am out of the office this week and that is why I am going to reproduce an article here, that I wrote last year for CyberAwake about the “Out-of-Office” automatic reply. The Out-of-Office Email and How it Compromises Your Organisation’s Cyber Security Before heading out on our leave, we …