Not hacked this time, a researcher have discovered that Halfords is just a little too free when it comes to sharing your data with others! Chris Hatton, a cyber security consultant discovered several exploits in service emails that Halfords had sent him in the course of normal business transactions: Halfords …
Make money fast – the classic social engineering phishing campaign
I try and highlight the variety of social engineering phishing emails doing the rounds as awareness among your people about the ways they are having their trust exploited, when they check their email, is essential for them to beat the threat actors. Here is another one taken apart by the …
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Your expectations of privacy
You you start to order that holiday, and part way through completing the online form, your partner finds a better deal on their phone – so you stop and close that web page and go to the next one. I am sure that every reasonable thinking person (that will be …
Apple Mail – now protects your privacy when it comes to those email newsletters
This is a difficult one. We, like many businesses and organisations, use email marketing – in our case MailChimp – and as part of these campaigns we have to operate within the GDPR rules and we like to track how people interact with our marketing materials. This is carried out …
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Spam
There has been a big increase in spam because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Here is a radio programme going into the history, background and modern use of Spam. Not quite what you expect… https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0016wwx
