Do you trust your team NOT to click on a dodgy email? Indeed, do you trust yourself?! Do you have conversations with your team about the consequences of a phishing attack? You may believe that your business is simply too […]
Why aren’t you required to input your password and MFA (multi factor authentication) code every time you open Outlook? Is it still safe to use? You’ve been told that passwords alone are not a strong enough defence and you have […]
Imagine you’re a hacker. You craft an enticing phishing email, perhaps with the help of AI, and then you start to cast out your bait to prospective victims (gathered from earlier phishing attacks, of course). You know it is a […]
Do you really know who sent that email? You surely know by now that a favourite trick of scammers is to try and convince you that their dodgy email has been sent to you by a trusted contact. Even though […]
Once more unto the breach, dear friends You are sure to have recognised this quote from Shakespeare’s Henry the Fifth, but are you pondering its significance for IT support? In the play, the English king is encouraging his troops to […]
I imagine this type of message is sadly familiar: Email from *CEO* using a non-company personal address Addressee is the accounts payable clerk Text: “Heading into an important meeting. Could you let me have your personal mobile number so […]
*Ping* An email lands in your inbox. Oh, it’s from once of your clients; you wonder what she wants. Rather a strange subject, though, and it is requesting that you log in to view the document. You backtrack – is […]
Did you ever wonder why scandals get the suffix “-gate” in the media? You know, issues like queuegate – Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby getting to the front at Queen Elizabeth’s lying-in-state – or Kategate – the 2024 Mother’s Day […]
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When a trusted email address is not to be trusted
You are hopefully getting pretty savvy now when it comes to emails purporting to be from legitimate senders. If the sending email address does not match the display name, that’s a giant clue that something is amiss; proceed with care. […]