Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Here is an excellent article by Rachael Medhurst Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security at the University of South Wales full of advice on how to spot and defend yourself against Christmas scams and cyber threats. How to protect yourself from cyber-scammers over the festive period (theconversation.com) Have a read and …
You can carry on shopping online… At the beginning of the year I ran a short story on some Chinese research that said it had taken a step towards breaking the encryption we all depend on the use the internet and electronic communications securely: Breaking encryption – Smart Thinking Solutions …
the FBI have issued a warning about fraudulent adverts taken out by threat actors and displayed on legitimate search engine requests. The FBI is warning the public that cyber criminals are using search engine advertisement services to impersonate brands and direct users to malicious sites that host ransomware and steal …
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I published an article yesterday on CyberAwake looking at how gift cards are misused by threat actors: How Gift Cards are exploited by Cyber Criminals – CyberAwake
Scammers will always take advantage of any situation if they think they will get away with exploiting you: Scammers, bots dominate threat landscape ahead of Black Friday and Cyber Monday – The Record by Recorded Future Just take a little care.
Just in time for the US Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Christmas shopping sprees, here are five useful online shopping tips from Google that have an equal place as part of any organisation’s online cyber security plan: 5 ways to safely shop online this holiday season (blog.google) It is obviously Google …
With the huge increase in online shopping and deliveries over the past couple of years, these have become one of the favourite attack vectors for cyber criminals. Usually it is some type of impersonation/social engineering attack via email, with the intention to steal sensitive information from you. Just be very …
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