Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Here is something I wrote for the Octagon Technology blog last month. It started out looking at the zero-day issue and then explored the tools available to create “defence in depth” cyber security and finished with an explanation of how you can keep up with this blog in using Outlook …
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US federal alert warns of the discovery of malicious cyber tools | US national security | The Guardian I use the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, (CISA) a lot. Many of the blog posts I run here, start there. However there is a vast amount of information on the CISA …
Patch Tuesday has come around again – and time for you check that ALL your updates and patches are up to date – not just your Microsoft ones. I know they are supposed to happen automatically but check anyway! Microsoft April 2022 Patch Tuesday – Sans Internet Storm Centre Microsoft’s …
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Johannes has written a good article, on Sans Internet Storm, on how to aid the fight on phishing emails – set up “Brand Indicators for Message Identification” (BIMI) for your email. We did this a few months ago over at Octagon Technology (I still have to set it up here …
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This is a social engineering combining a phishing email and an attached voicemail file – that can evade many security systems, including Microsoft’s and Google’s, as it appears to be from a legitimate source. Hackers employ voicemail phishing attacks on WhatsApp users | TechRepublic Our Social Engineering and Email Cyber …
