Having come back from a week’s holiday, I have been busy catching up, so this week the Wednesday Bit about reminding you about my collection of Back-to-Basics cyber security primers. Why am I doing this? Because we can all benefit from some cyber security training, whatever our level of expertise. The articles …
Back-to-Basics – A Phishing Email Primer
I am having a break this week from the “Wednesday Bit”, but what I do have for you is my today is my completed Phishing Email Primer. However my track record for these Back-to-Basics mini-series is that they do not stay “complete” for very long, so do keep an eye …
Use MFA
Following Monday’s post about Microsoft stopping basic authentication for personal accounts, in favour of MFA/token based security, here is a reminder why organisations need to enforce MFA: Scathing report on Medibank cyberattack highlights unenforced MFA (bleepingcomputer.com) No excuses, that includes your very busy CEO and Josephine in accounts who has …
Not business cyber security but important…
Microsoft has announced that of 16 September 2024, basic authentication (using an email address + password) will no longer be an option for personal Microsoft accounts, i.e. Outlook.com, Hotmail.co.uk and Live.com. Microsoft: New Outlook security changes coming to personal accounts (bleepingcomputer.com) To access these accounts users will need to set …
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Credentials are King
Threat actors are always looking for good sources of valid (stolen) email and password combinations – and there are many hundreds of millions available to them. 361 million stolen accounts leaked on Telegram added to HIBP (bleepingcomputer.com) Once they have these credentials, the threat actors will be trying them out …