If you look back over the last thirty years and think about the one single technology that has changed our lives more than any other…it’s likely you’ll land on email. Perhaps even more than the mobile phone, the ability to send and receive messages in an instant changed everything about how we live and how […]
WHY WE ARE SO VULNERABLE TO PHISHING, AND WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT IT? Read More »
Research is drawn from 2|SEC Consulting’s Virtual CISO, Cyber Security Audit, Cyber Essentials and Penetration Test team engagements over 2019. The Top 5 Cyber Threats found: Passwords You think your password is secure? Think again. Billions of user accounts and passwords have been compromised and reused by hackers. We will look at the mechanics and
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Alexander Drabek is part of our team of expert penetration testers; who “ethically hack” into client’s networks and find any potential weaknesses. We asked him exactly what it is he does, and how he does it. What skills do you need to become a penetration tester? Many people think penetration testers are highly obsessive and
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Google users appear to have been the latest victims of the most recent phishing attack, this time through their file sharing Google Docs service. Victims were sent a sinister email disguised as a fraudulent invitation to edit a Google Doc that appears to come from one of their contacts. The subject line reads “[Contact name]
Remember that $100 million whaling scam? Read More »
Last month, the papers reported that two major US technology firms were deceived by Evaldas Rimasauskas, a Lithuanian criminal, into sending him $100 million through an email whaling scam. It has just been confirmed that Google and Facebook were the two companies that were the victims of this scam. The two companies did not confirm
$100 million whaling scam: A “wake up call” for even the most sophisticated firms. Read More »
