Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Here is a clue – social engineering. I am often asked this by clients, especially those who I am suggesting need to up their cyber security game. Here is a very good article by the cyber security expert Brian Krebs looking in detail at the recent high profile data breaches …
I have written a lot about the fact that many cyber attacks include an element of social engineering, to tease the victim into lowering their guard and doing what the threat actor wants. Here is an excellent example of that, described by Xavier Mertens on SANS Internet Storm, where the …
I use OneNote a lot – so I had to follow up on my previous post about OneNote attachments being used as an attack vector. OneNote has become the threat actors new choice of attachment probably because Microsoft closed the door on macro attacks. In the wild, Microsoft OneNote’ .one’ …
There has been a terrible series of earthquakes in Syria and Turkey – so expect the amount of scam traffic email, texts and websites to leap up in the coming days as the scammers take advantage of people’s suffering and other’s compassion. This article by Johannes Ullrich has some very …
Here is very interesting short read over on the The Conversation, by Yaniv Hanoch, Professor in Decision Science, University of Southampton and Stacey WoodProfessor of Psychology, Scripps College, looking t scams and scammers. They are particularly interested in how the famous and the influencers unintentionally support and endorse the scammers. …
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