Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
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 …
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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) …
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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I had to quote, Simon Sharwood, from The Register, as the headline for this article. He has written an excellent article on how organised threat actors keep records of who they have successfully attacked in the past, so they can go back and try again. Scammers double-dip by offering help …
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