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 […]
What is social engineering? We’re constantly hearing the term “Social Engineering” in relation to cybersecurity and cyber-attacks, but what is social engineering? Lexico’s Oxford English dictionary defines it as: The use of centralized planning in an attempt to manage social change and regulate the future development and behaviour of a society (in the context of […]
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, […]
Microsoft Office Professional 365 fails to activate One of my computers has just installed the latest “Windows Feature Update version 1083”. Upon reboot, every time I tried to use one of the Office 365 applications, the activation wizard popped up – why I don’t know. Clicking on next bought up an error – “We couldn’t […]
Google Chrome to mark HTTP websites as “not secure” Google have recently announced that all HTTP websites will be marked as insecure by Google Chrome. Google have been pushing HTTPS (Secure HTTP) for a few years now by, amongst other things, penalising HTTP websites in search results. They are now taking this one step further […]
How to avoid ransomware attacks: 10 tips Ransomware attacks – an especially sinister type of malware often delivered through spear-phishing emails that lock up valuable data assets and demand a ransom to release them – are a rapidly-growing security threat. We all remember what happened with the Wannacry attack on the NHS back in 2017. […]
Windows 10 won’t shut down properly Recently, my Lenovo laptop (running Windows 10) has started failing to shut down properly. When I click on “Power/Shut down” the laptop shuts down and then reboots back to the login screen. I tried shutting it down just using the power button, but exactly the same happened. After a […]