Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
We looked at some of the most common types of email phishing attacks in the last part of this Back-to-Basics mini-series and I had promised you today an article on “size matters”, but I have changed my mind. Every day I read up on the latest threats and developments in …
I have used the first two parts of this mini-series on Phishing attacks to look at the more general subject of social engineering because phishing is an application of social engineering aimed at you and your organisation. Start to understand the “how” of social engineering and you start to build …
Just because it is me, I am going to start this Back-to-Basics mini-series by not talking about phishing emails but looking at a key component of a malicious email attack – social engineering. So what is Social Engineering? In its most basic form, it is the advertising we are all …
Continue reading “Phishing Primer – Social Engineering (pt. 1)”
Let’s start the Spring run of the “Wednesday Bit” with a positive story. A story in which, if you choose to participate, your online privacy will get that much better. The Electronic Frontier Foundation and Privacy Badger I have written about Privacy Badger before, as part of a previous “Wednesday …
This week the Wednesday Bit is for reminding you about my collection of mini-series and back to basics cyber security primers. There have been a number of additions, updates and changes since I first ran a “Collection” article. Why am I doing this? Because we can all benefit from some …
