What can I do about reporting phishing emails? Phishing emails are a big problem. If you don’t know what phishing is, then you’ve either been extremely lucky or you’ve not read What is phishing? In brief, phishing emails are social engineering attacks that are trying to make you part with private and personal information (like […]
What is malware? Malware is the collective name for several different types of malicious software that are harmful to a computer user. Malware can be delivered in several different ways including: Email: A link or file is included, and the recipient clicks on the link or opens the file. USB hardware device, e.g. memory stick: […]
What is pretexting? Pretexting is a form of social engineering where a mal-actor tries to convince you to give up valuable information or access to a service or system. The distinguishing feature of this kind of attack is that the mal-actor comes up with a story – or pretext – designed to fool you. In […]
What is vishing? Your phone rings and someone on the other end introduces them self as calling from a well-known company. Are they really? Or is this a scammer? Vishing, a combination of “voice” and “phishing”, is a phone scam designed to get you to share personal information. The call is designed to instil FUD […]
What is phishing? In my last blog post, I answered the question “What is social engineering?“. In this post, I will look at some of the different types of phishing attacks. Phishing is the most popular form of social engineering attack. In 2018 phishing accounted for 36% of all social engineering attacks and it’s estimated […]
Windows 10 login with two factor authentication using a YubiKey I needed to enable two factor authentication on a Windows account. Natively, this can’t yet be done (Windows Hello is not 2FS, but that’s another story). I decided to try and set this up using Yubico’s YubiKey 5. If it worked, this would mean that, […]
I met a budding author a while back. She’d signed a contract to write a number of children’s books. Very sensibly she realised that she needed to back up what she had written, just in case her laptop died. So she decided to use Dropbox – after all it is free and, when it is […]