7 ways to improve your cybersecurity for 2022 Over the last year we have seen a massive increase in hacking attempts on micro, small and medium-sized businesses, and I’ve written quite a few blog posts about cybersecurity, many of which focus on social engineering. In this post, I will give seven tips on how you […]
GoDaddy, 123Reg hacked On 22nd November 2021, GoDaddy disclosed that an unknown attacker had gained unauthorized access to the system used to provision the company’s Managed WordPress sites. The following day, GoDaddy revealed that the hack also affected their reseller brands, including 123Reg, tsoHost, Media Temple, Domain Factory, Heart Internet and Host Europe. This hack […]
How to create a word cloud using PowerPoint I hadn’t realised this until recently, but you can use Microsoft PowerPoint to create a Word Cloud. Yes, I know there are websites where you can do this (I’ve usually used wordclouds.com), but sometimes I want a word cloud for a presentation, so why not do it […]
Facebook: how you really get hacked I’ve written a lot over the past months about cybersecurity and social engineering and as October is cybersecurity awareness month, I thought I’d share some resources that might help. But first… How people think they get hacked How they really get hacked I’ve seen loads of these types of […]
How to prevent social engineering attacks I’ve written a lot about different types of social engineering attacks and why we fall for them. But it’s not all bad news. We can do something to prevent them or protect ourselves from them. Prevention and protection can be implemented by using layers of defence. Each layer helps […]
Why do we fall for social engineering attacks? Over recent months, I’ve posted several articles on different types of social engineering attacks, including phishing (including how you can report phishing emails), vishing, baiting, water-holing, pretexting, diversion theft, honey traps, quid pro quo and tailgating. Now that we know what these are, I’m going to look […]
Tips for keeping your password safe and secure We have loads of website we log in to these days – I have somewhere around a thousand. That’s a thousand possible places that hackers could get my password from and try to use elsewhere. So I have to keep my passwords safe and secure. Why password […]