Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
“…small to medium sized businesses (SMBs) face an average of 11 cyberthreats per day…”(BlackBerry, 2022) Following the NCSC’s warning to UK organisations to review their cybersecurity, here is an article by Brian Stone at TechRepublic discussing the threats to small businesses outlined in a report by BlackBerry. BlackBerry report reveals …
Continue reading “Small Enterprises to be the focus of cyber-attacks in the coming months”
With the huge increase in online shopping and deliveries over the past couple of years, these have become one of the favourite attack vectors for cyber criminals. Usually it is some type of impersonation/social engineering attack via email, with the intention to steal sensitive information from you. Just be very …
Continue reading “Deliveries – a reminder these are always a hacker attack vector”
This scam is simple in its implementation and very worrying. Fake police IDs used to con victim out of £25,000 – BBC News This was an attack on a member of the public, but it illustrates the importance of systems, policies and procedures, that address cyber security in businesses when …
Continue reading “Scam – fake call followed up by fake police”
It is always good to know the latest ways hackers are trying to deceive you. An obvious way to make you feel comfortable with their junk email is to make it look like a legitimate security tool report. Here is a good example reported by SANS Internet Diary of just …
Continue reading “More phishing spam – education is the best defence”
One of the things we advise people to do on our Phishing and Social Engineering training, is to be very aware of the look and feel of any login pages and web sites they are directed to, as bad actors may not get it completely right – so if they …
