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Posted on 25 October 202329 October 2023

I am out of the office…

phishing email threat

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 …

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Posted on 25 September 202325 September 2023

This really is a Nigerian email scam…

I often refer to the typical “Nigerian Prince” email scam in my Cyber Awareness Training – not expecting them to work today. But there are always new angles! Nigerian man pleads guilty to attempted $6 million BEC email heist – BleepingComputer Next week’s Wednesday’s bit is going to be about …

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Posted on 8 March 20238 March 2023

More protection for Microsoft Excel

Following the blocking of VBA macros by default in Microsoft Office apps – read about the ups and downs of that story here – Microsoft has announced that all untrusted XLL add-ins will be blocked by default. Microsoft Excel now blocking untrusted XLL add-ins by default (bleepingcomputer.com) Blocking any avenue …

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Posted on 8 February 20238 February 2023

QakNote – OneNote malware now has name

onenote macro

I use OneNote a lot – so I had to follow up on my previous post about OneNote attachments being used as an attack vector. OneNote has become the threat actors new choice of attachment probably because Microsoft closed the door on macro attacks. In the wild, Microsoft OneNote’ .one’ …

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Posted on 7 February 20237 February 2023

Even the biggest suppliers have outages

Microsoft’s Outlook.com email service has been and is suffering a series of outages that is impacting it’s users. This is not a common service used by business, however we do have some clients, who have a need to use this type of service ( I am not sure if they …

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