I spend a lot of time with clients, in training courses and on this blog, explaining the significance of the “zero day” issue and how every organisation (and individual) needs to have a plan to deal with it. This post from SANS Internet Storm looks at the life cycle of …
The wrong Lincoln College closes
I saw the news last week that Lincoln College had closed because of cyber attacks – I was obviously attracted to the story as we live near to Lincoln, here in the UK, but it was not that Lincoln College. Because of my teaching commitments the story of the US …
Over at Octagon Technology – In the wild right now a phishing text message scam caught by one of the team
Martin, the Operations manager at Octagon has written about a social engineering, phishing scam that was sent to him by a text message. Omicron Scam – Octagon Technology Have a look – you could get the same message! I also write for the Octagon blog (of course). Earlier in the …
Let’s pretend – but this is not Play School
These are two very different stories but both basically spin around the same idea – on the internet it is easy to pretend to be something you are not: Huge rise in LinkedIn bogus boss scams – Warwickshire Police – BBC News Ukraine war: Investigation finds hundreds of fake charity …
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Spam
There has been a big increase in spam because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Here is a radio programme going into the history, background and modern use of Spam. Not quite what you expect… https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0016wwx
