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) …
Why Cyber Security Awareness Training is Importatnt?
Whatever technical defences you (and I) rely on, there is a probability that the threat actors will find ways to bypass them: Microsoft 365 anti-phishing feature can be bypassed with CSS (bleepingcomputer.com) If the phishing email gets as far as your team member’s inbox, they had better be able to …
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New Ransomware
Just in case you thought because I have not been writing about it, that ransomware has gone away, threat actors have launched yet another version of everyone’s worse nightmare malware. New Eldorado ransomware targets Windows, VMware ESXi VMs (bleepingcomputer.com) Eldorado ransomware attacks and all the usual suspects, encrypting both Linux …
Back-to-Basics – The Collection III
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 …
In the news this week…
As I finish my Back-to-Basics Phishing Email Primer, with an article titled “Phishing Emails are happening right now!“, the BBC publish this: Warning in Guernsey after phishing scam increase – BBC News I am not making this stuff up; board members and senior managers need to have some form of …
