Yesterday was the second Tuesday of the month that means our support team have been reviewing our client monitoring reports and the SOC to check that the Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates have been completed. Our team will keep an eye on the reports for the next day or two to check there …
Phishing Primer – Social Engineering (pt. 1)
Just because it is me, I am going to start this Back-to-Basics mini-series by not talking about phishing emails but looking at a key component of a malicious email attack – social engineering. So what is Social Engineering? In its most basic form, it is the advertising we are all …
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Because It’s Friday – Electronic Mail
This video starts off a bit odd – “…by the time I actually met Michael, …I didn’t care what he looked like”. “It [email] could rival the use of the telephone [in corporate business] by 1995.” This is where it all started and not one mention of spam or malicious …
Encryption – A Primer
Over the past couple of weeks, I have been writing a short series looking at the basics of encryption, how you can use it to improve your cyber security and some of the issues you need to address if you are using it. As I have done with other mini-series …
The fast track for better cyber security
Modern cyber security tools are well within the budget of even the smallest organisations- even one person businesses. We have a webinar this week to tell you how. This article will give you some background it includes a link to sign up for either the webinar or to get the …