It is a while since I have written about passwords – although I did do a deep dive into them and produced this Back-to-Basics primer: Most people would have got the message, by now, that a password has to be complex. The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has an opinion …
Microsoft Patch Tuesday – June 2025
Yesterday was the second Tuesday of the month, Microsoft Patch Tuesday. The day the cyber security world thinks about Microsoft patches and vulnerabilities. But remember other vendors also release cyber security and functionality updates and patches on or around the same time – check those as well. Our support team has …
Fake Zoom
Before the pandemic nearly no one had heard of Zoom, but following a stellar take up of the service there is hardly anyone online who has not used it. This makes it a perfect target for hackers: Be Careful With Fake Zoom Client Downloads – SANS Internet Storm Center Your …
So you want to know how a phishing campaign works?
This is not clickbait for hackers! Jan Kopriva has written an excellent article taking a phishing campaign apart so you can understand why the hackers like this attack vector to get into your organisation. Another day, another phishing campaign abusing google.com open redirects – SANS Internet Storm Center It is …
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This is a good question…
It’s 2025… so why are obviously malicious advertising URLs still going strong? – SANS Internet Storm Center The article by Jan Kopriva makes a number of excellent points about why threat actors continue with these types of social engineering attacks – but the bottom line is that lack of training …
