Posts Tagged ‘Spear-Phishing’
Yahoo breach – Round 3 … Billion! ðŸ˜
If you had a Yahoo!, BT or Sky e-mail account (also AT&T, Frontier.com and Rogers) back in 2013, well you are definitely part of the latest and greatest Yahoo breach.
Read MoreScary new way to have your GMail password and account stolen.
This is an incredibly easy way for the evil doers to steal your GMail ID and GMail password. This one could even catch out security people like me! 😱 So what happens is you receive an e-mail from somebody you know, who also had a GMail (note the emphasis on had).Â
Read MoreCould the attempted theft of €4.3m from Meath County Council happen to your business?
As was widely reported at the weekend, Meath County Council were the victim of an attempted theft of some €4.3 million. A lot of the reportage was pointing to hackers and this being a cyber attack, but based on what is known, in my opinion, it’s not really. This attempted theft was facilitated by the…
Read MoreDon’t ignore that e-mail from Lynda.com
I received two e-mails in recent days from online training provider Lynda.com customer care, this is because I have had two accounts with Lynda.com in the past. Both were set-up when they had a 30 day free trial offer, which I made use of. I’m one of the 9.5 million customers/former customers of Lynda.com who have…
Read MoreThere is a lot of variations in scam e-mail the last couple of days.
I yearn for the days when evil e-mail was so easily identified “becuse it wuz ritten in, gud, inglish wit grate spellhng an pun.tation”. 😃 In the last couple of days, the evil doers have been varying their scam e-mails fairly wildly and it’s bound to catch out some people. I’ll run through three sneaky methods…
Read MoreInternet Security Awareness and Safety Training
Justification: Did you know that malicious software gets past commercial, enterprise grade anti-virus and e-mail filtering products on a worryingly regular basis? Firewalls and Anti-virus packages lure people into a false sense of security. While they do provide protection up to a point, if somebody opens an e-mail attachment that contains new malicious software, these…
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