First read this article about domains that are almost the domains of prominent brands and trade names: Do you want fries with that hack | Smart Thinking Solutions Now you know what the problem is, here is a global solution to it: Registrars can now block all domains that resemble …
The Threat Actors will abuse any service for their own ends
Researchers are warning that threat actors are abusing the Google Cloud Run – an application and website development and management service – to distribute banking trojans on an industrial scale: Hackers abuse Google Cloud Run in massive banking trojan campaign (bleepingcomputer.com) Your takeaway Any applications or software you have written …
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Do you want fries with that hack
Setting up phony websites with just a letter different from the legitimate sites is nothing new – I can remember a marketing company (now defunct) trying to persuade me to buy dozens of variations of our IT support company domain, to capture those potential customers who have “fat fingers” – …
Really it is not a scam…
…but isn’t that what a scammer would say? Here is an interesting situation to start off the cyber news week. How do you convince people your official website and service is not a scam? The Government is constantly having to do this for their Household Response Service. UK gov keeps …
WordPress websites are easy hanging fruit for hackers – is yours?
I have just published the second part of a series of articles looking at the governance that business owners and boards should exercise over software, websites and their reputation:
Anatomy of a WordPress hack
We have a WordPress protocol that we enact with cyber security clients, the hosting clients who buy into the full support package and it comes as part of the “Be the Best Consultant You Can website package“. It is needed as WordPress sites are very prolific and so they are …
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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