In this post, you’ll learn why vishing is successful and what you can do to mitigate the risk of being vished. Vishing is a form of social engineering. Much like phishing, it can be used to manipulate people into giving away usernames, passwords and sometimes bank details. Vishing: Exploitation by voice commands Vishing is the […]
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Dec
Dec
In the following blog post, we are going to shine a spotlight on the general cyber threat landscape in the UK, examine the most prevalent forms of attack and look at the detrimental implications these attacks have on organisations. After reading this post, we hope you’ll be able to see where your company figures in […]
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Nov
Nov
SPEAR PHISHING, WHALING, BUSINESS EMAIL COMPROMISE AND CEO FRAUD IS ON THE RISE AND COSTING COMPANIES BILLIONS Have you heard of the acronym: FUD? It stands for ‘Fear, Uncertainty & Doubt.’ Unfortunately, the Information Security industry has a bit of a bad rep for selling their services off the back of FUD: “Don’t want the […]
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May
May
Good information security awareness training can turn your workforce into the strongest line of defence instead of the ‘weakest link’. Around 70 – 80% of all breaches can be attributed to the human element, yet companies often focus their resource of software-based security solutions. Where do we start? If you haven’t already found our post […]
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Feb
Feb
We doubt it, he probably just needs some awareness training You’ve probably heard about Jeff Bezos’ personal and sensitive media being bandied about by the National Enquirer. No need for us to dwell on that, or comment on the US political machinations that could be behind it. Instead, prompted by an article by Rory Cellan-Jones […]
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Dec
Dec
500 Million records in the Marriot Data Breach I imagine you have all now read with dismay but possibly not that much surprise at the latest ‘megahack’ over at Marriott Hotels. We’re not going to bombard you with more of the same. Instead, we thought this is a good opportunity to highlight a very unwelcome […]
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Sep
Sep
Social Engineering Attacks Social engineering. Nowadays it’s everywhere, and you couldn’t even know about it. Where the normal idea of a “hacker” is someone sitting in their room with a dark hoodie on looking at multiple monitors of code, social engineering is the hacking of humans. We have created this infographic to detail some of the […]