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Don’t open that Voicemail!
The evil doers are up to their old tricks, trying to hoodwink people into opening up their dastardly files and execute their nasty contents. Usually they send files that claim to be invoices or bank statements, which will normally catch out a small percentage of their targeted group – accountants in this case, because accountants…
Read MoreA Nightmare on Quadrooter Street.
When I was a teenager, watching slasher flicks like A Nightmare on Elm Street (the original 1984 version) and Halloween, in order to look like a “tough guy” I developed a sort of movie watching buffer whereby when any startling occurrence happened (e.g. the scary guy leaps out of the shadows), I would simply sit…
Read More“Attack” on Garda systems is likely a Ransomware incident.
Now that the dust is settling after the IT Security incident, which caused the Garda Síochána (the Irish Police force) to shut down access to their systems late last week, it would appear that it wasn’t quite as nefarious an incident as was being portrayed in the media. Headlines such as “Mob target Garda computers”…
Read MoreEvil doers just being evil … news at 11!
The good folk over at Cisco’s Talos Threat Intelligence Organisation have been looking at a new piece of “apparent” Ransomware called Ranscam. The reason I use “apparent” is because it doesn’t hold any of your data to ransom, quite simply because it’s deleted it already! That doesn’t stop it trying to get you to pay…
Read MoreThe Ten Commandments of Cyber Security
The Ten Commandments of Cyber Security Click on the links for a summary and detail of each commandment.
Read MoreA slew of fake LinkedIn connection requests.
For somebody who normally receives a LinkedIn connection request about once a week, yesterday I suddenly received 6! Wow, am I popular or what??? Well in this case I am popular … for the scammers. Each one was a fake profile. Firstly none of them had a connection in common with any of my contacts.…
Read MorePhishing by spreadsheet?
So you receive an unexpected e-mail from a stranger, with the subject of “Important Notice” and it contains an attachment. If you’ve received L2 Cyber Security Solutions Security Awareness Training, then you consign this phishing e-mail to junk/spam and move on with your life. However, if you do open the file, you get what looks…
Read MoreSneaky Facebook phishing attack.
I became aware of this really sneaky attempt by hackers to steal people’s Facebook ID and password recently. This is known as phishing and it’s quite clever and I must admit that I could quite easily have fallen victim to it, had I not read the article. I’ve put a link to the full article…
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