Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Threat actors have to find ways of breaking down our cyber security training – that is where social engineering comes in. They want to find some way to get you to do what they want – this usually means exploiting your trust, but a bt of stress in there to …
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McAfee Fake Antivirus Phishing Campaign is Back! – SANS Internet Storm Center …and… New zero-day vulnerability in Windows being exploited Phishing emails in the wild – how can this infect you? The story of a phishing email I have written a lot lately about phishing campaigns, all of which have …
Zero-day attacks will always be a serious issue for anyone involved in cyber security. A zero-day cyber attack is one that happens in the gap between the hackers discovering a vulnerability in a system and putting an exploit out in the wild and the software vendors, discovering the same software …
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Threat actors are always looking for ways to evade your anti-virus software and other technical defences you use. There is an active Qbot malware email phishing campaign being run across the world that is compromising the Windows Control panel of infected machine – which can evade some software defences. This …
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Yesterday I published my latest article over on our online training site CyberAwake looking at the most basic of cyber-attacks – an infected phishing email. Don’t be tempted to open that zip file A story of a phishing email – CyberAwake Could you people deal with this situation? QBot Malware: …
