With the holiday season well underway, I thought we would take a look at the cyber security implications of the Out-of-Office notification:
Seasonal article over on CyberAwake
Stealing emails undetected using Chrome extensions
The malicious extension has been called SHARPEXT by researchers at Volexity and impacts the Chromium-based web browsers, Chrome, Edge, and can steal email from Gmail. Cyberspies use Google Chrome extension to steal emails undetected (bleepingcomputer.com)
Halfords can’t keep a secret
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 …
