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Threatening Spam Emails
Spam emails – you can’t escape them But some of them are quite frightening. There has been a rise in scammers using threatening emails to try and get people to pay them money. These threatening emails can be full of implicit or explicit threat, neither …
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Security Alert: WiFi vulnerability
This month researchers revealed details of a new exploit called KRACK which impacts WPA2 a security protocol of many WiFi connections. KRACK stands for Key Reinstallation AttaCK. Mathy Vanhoef who discovered the vulnerability said “Attackers can use this novel attack technique to read information that …
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Security Alert: Bad Rabbit
Rise of Bad Rabbit Bad Rabbit appears to be a Petya/NotPetya cryptoware variant. Masquerading as an Adobe Flash update, Bad Rabbit tricks the user into installing it. Once installed the Malware encrypts files and replaces the Master Boot Record. This disables the device and the …
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Security Alert: Rise in Phishing Delivery Emails
The latest email phishing trend that we have noticed is from delivery companies… or cybercriminals pretending to be delivery companies! There are two types of delivery company phishing emails circulating at the moment Attempted delivery/ Delivery cancellation An email claiming that a parcel delivery was attempted …
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How should you handle a security breach?
During a security breach Be quick – As soon as you notice something is wrong you need to act quickly. Limit the ability for the attacker to gain further access to the network – the quickest way to do this is to switch off the …
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Security Alert: WannaCry Ransomware
Our blog post, Security Alert: Microsoft remote access vulnerability, on Wednesday, highlighted a vulnerability within Microsoft’s Windows Defender virus protection that allowed threats to be activated on Windows machines without the user having to click any links or email attachments. Unfortunately, on Friday (2017.05.12) this vulnerability was …
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Security Alert: Microsoft remote access vulnerability
2017.05.15 See our update on this here! Microsoft has released an urgent update to stop hackers being able to take control of computers using a single email. The vulnerability was residing in the Microsoft antimalware software (e.g Windows Defender) and could be exploited by sending …
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