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 …
QakNote – OneNote malware now has name
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’ …
Why the rich and famous get scammed and also aid the scammers
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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Practice Drinking Coffee* better known as Planning and Preparation
Sorry, this is not a coffee* appreciation article it is an article about planning and preparation for an incident. Planning and Preparation = Good Governance Businesses and organisations need a cyber security policy and a plan covering what they do to mitigate the risk of an incident and what they …
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