Cybersecurity has become paramount for businesses and individuals alike. Cyber threats abound, and data breaches and malware attacks are costly. Attacks come from all sectors, including the cloud tools you use every day. The average employee uses 36 cloud-based services daily. Managing access to sensitive data and resources has become crucial. It’s a vital piece …
In today’s world, where cyberattacks are on the rise, traditional passwords no longer provide the level of security they once did. But fear not! There’s a powerful tool that can help safeguard your business and personal digital data – two-factor authentication (also called 2FA). What is 2FA? Think of two-factor authentication as a dual security …
In an ideal world, there would be no such thing as a data breach. Try as they might, cybercriminals would be thwarted by your business’ up-to-date cybersecurity strategies, your cybersecurity awareness training and your plugging of all possible cybersecurity holes. Of course, unfortunately, cyberattacks and data breaches still occur. This isn’t to say that employing …
If phishing is a large fishing trawler heaving out a net and hoping to catch…something, spear phishing is an experienced diver, homing in on an individual target. Spear phishing is a targeted phishing attack that uses social engineering techniques in a highly personalised way. While spear phishing attacks often arrive via email, cybercriminals are now …
Overseas travel on the cards? Lucky you! (Can we come?!) Seriously though, if you’re heading overseas, or even just interstate, now is the time to think about the safe travel and security of your devices and data. Now. Not when you have a spare five minutes in the café at the airport. And definitely not …
Remember those chain letters you used to receive that promised untold wealth if you sent the required copies, and untold terror if you didn’t? Well, other than being similarly aggravating, reply-chain email attacks aren’t at all like that! A reply-chain email attack is a form of cyberattack that involves a phishing email tucked inside an …
It’s hard to imagine what one million dollars looks like – let alone six trillion… But six trillion dollars is the estimated cost to businesses each year worldwide due to cybercrime. If you’d prefer your business didn’t become a part of this staggering statistic, read on… Mistake 1: Assuming you’re not a target Whether small …
According to a 2021 article in The Guardian, ‘the tyranny of passwords’ may be coming to an end – well, at least some time in the next ‘two to five years. Biometrics (including not only fingerprint IDs and face recognition, but more sci-fi stuff such as tech that recognises the shape of your ears, how …
With so much of our time spent using the internet every day, it has never been more important to promote the safe use of technology, to build digital skills, and to help everyone have safer, more positive experiences online. Taking a leaf from the recent Safer Internet Day 2022, held on the 8th of February …
When it comes to cybercrime, there’s always something new on the horizon, hoping to catch us unawares. One of the latest is ‘smishing’ or SMS phishing. It’s fast becoming an ever-increasing problem for both individuals and businesses. Definition of smishing SMS phishing is essentially a form of phishing attack undertaken through text or SMS …
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