Before we start: At Smart Thinking and Octagon Technology we think protecting children and vulnerable people from threat actors on the internet is extremely important – but the action taken need to be technically and securely effective and not impact the privacy of law abiding citizens. Now onto the post… …
And we are back to politicians wanting to end E2EE in the name of child safety!
Having just run a post, where the ICO is promoting it’s Child Code, a very effective way of protecting children, the very next article I read whilst researching the cyber security and privacy news this morning was this: EU Plan to Scan Private Messages for Child Abuse Images Puts Encryption …
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Over at Octagon Technology – In the wild right now a phishing text message scam caught by one of the team
Martin, the Operations manager at Octagon has written about a social engineering, phishing scam that was sent to him by a text message. Omicron Scam – Octagon Technology Have a look – you could get the same message! I also write for the Octagon blog (of course). Earlier in the …
Word of the day = Smishing
“Smishing” is similar to phishing but instead of using email the cyber criminals tempt you with a text message. Still targeting the usual suspects of your personal information and money. This report on scams and attacks being distributed using sms text messaging is US centric – but what happens over …