Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Diana has written this week’s “Wednesday Bit” on QR Codes. Last week I became aware of a significant problem with QR codes, which are used by many organisations and individuals to direct people to their websites or sales pages. Such codes have been in use now for many years. (BizTechReports, …
…you might just give the threat actors your Google credentials. A malware campaign, detected by OALABS researchers, locks your web browser into “kiosk mode” and asks you for your Google credentials to unlock it. Of course, the malware then steals those credentials. Malware locks browser in kiosk mode to steal …
A few months ago, I wrote a Back-to-Basics mini-series on phishing emails, how they impact organisations and what you can do to reduce the risks. Back-to-Basics – A Phishing Email Primer | Smart Thinking Solutions Phish Attacks – the deluge never stops Every week I read articles on the latest …
Continue reading “Another thing about phishing emails… (pt.12)”
On September 4, Tewkesbury Borough Council declared a major IT incident and shut down its systems and enacted their incident response plan. It now turns out that this incident was not a cyber-attack but an error in user accounts. However this does not matter. There was and is inconvenience to …
I wrote about QR Code and cyber security over on CyberAwake back in June. Now BleepingComputer is reporting on “Your Boyfriend cheated” posters, which include a QR code and have been put up across the UK. Clickbaity or genius? ‘BF cheated on you’ QR codes pop up across UK (bleepingcomputer.com) …
