Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
“Beacuase It’s Friday” has been published for this week – Because It’s Friday – Electronic Mail | Smart Thinking Solutions – but as I was reading the cyber security news this morning this page came up on my BBC News feed. A BBC Newsround report from 1992 about the Michelangelo …
I am never popular when I am helping organisations create cyber security plans and I insist that company laptops are only for company business. This applies double when the laptop is used at home or on holiday – you cannot let your significant other or others use the company computer. …
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Once ransomware gets into an organisation, usually through some type of phishing attack, that organisation will have a problem that will cost it money and will damage its reputation. So, anything that makes it easier for ransomware attacks to flourish and increase has to be bad news for every organisation …
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First let’s get a definition of social engineering: Social engineering is the art of manipulating people to give up confidential information. The types of information compromised can vary, but when organisations are targeted, the criminals are usually trying to trick you into giving them your credentials for secure systems you …
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WordPress is one of the most – if not the most – popular website package on the web. Both professional web designers and less professional web designers use it. One of the reasons it is so popular is that with a little work, anyone can alter the code or download …
For those of you of a certain age, do you remember when we went from plain text email to rich content html emails? Of course, by rich content I mean some bold and italic text and some images! Here is a new attack using old technology – called Kobold Letters. …
The premium WordPress plugin LayerSlider, which is used in over one million sites, has been shown to be vulnerable to one of the most basic of cyber security hacks – unauthenticated SQL injection. There were tutorials at Napier University showing us how to carry out these types of hacks, it …
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