Whaling – phishing attack aimed at top managers and C-level executives CEO Fraud – a social engineering attack in which the attacker impersonates a C-level executive When someone thinks of a phishing attack, chances are they’re envisioning a simple, poorly-written message, littered with spelling and grammatical errors. Oftentimes this message...
26.08.2020
Ransomware – type of malware which threatens to publish the victim’s data online or prevents the user from accessing their files without paying a ransom. Most commonly utilizes file encryption methods to achieve its goals. Ransomware – a threat to companies Ransomware is a lucrative business. Once the malware is...
19.08.2020
This July will go down as a really bad month in Twitter’s history. Personalities and prominent public figures such as Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk – to name a few – got their Twitter accounts compromised. The cybercriminals didn’t spare corporations either: Apple and Uber’s accounts...
05.08.2020
It’s safe to say that BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) trend has never really caught on. Back in early 2010s numerous tech-oriented news outlets expected somewhat of a ‘how-we-conduct-business revolution’, but in reality, very few businesses actually embraced the model of employees using their personal devices for work purposes. Perhaps...
10.04.2020
Given the current COVID-19 pandemic, many people are considering working from home. Some of them will probably take home a business laptop, which has been prepared by the IT Department. From a cybersecurity standpoint, this is the best option: the employee takes home a ready-to-use device, with all software pre-configured...
27.03.2020
The 2013 Edward Snowden publicly confirmed something, which many of the IT experts were suspecting for years: the fact that an average computer makes for an excellent tool for spying on us. The media storm ensued. Soon afterward, a flurry of privacy-oriented products and services popped up, as the society,...
24.02.2020
During one of the online seminars conducted by CyberForces and Xopero on the topic of Internet security and social engineering, numerous attendees asked me to outline how encrypted e-mail works and how can one start utilizing it in their day-to-day operations. Since the topic is very broad, I thought this...
29.01.2020
Anyone using YouTube lately has probably seen the all-prevalent ads: if you purchase a private VPN service, you’ll be safe online: your traffic will be fully encrypted, your ISP will not track you, on top of that, you’ll get access to content otherwise blocked in your country. For a few...
30.12.2019
Whether we like it or not, BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) is here to stay. Long-gone are the days of IT managers making company-wide decisions when it comes to preferred mobile platforms. Today almost everyone uses their own mobile device in a work environment – whether the IT department is...
22.07.2019