So given it’s early September, and the entire office is in a post-holiday coma, we thought we’d break the monotony of the perpetual cyber doom media cycle and distract you with a few of our favourite ludicrous scams and subsequent responses…Continue Reading: A comedy of email errors
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The many guises of a phishing attack
News this week that highlighted the canny nature of scammers made us wonder whether we needed to start a glossary of phishing attacks. These attacks now come in many guises, and if you’re a computer user that isn’t privy to an underground network of caught-in-the-wild attack loggers, you may easily fall victim to one of…Continue Reading: The many guises of a phishing attack
Scams can be complex, so let’s stop playing the blame game
As long as there has been the exchange of money, there has always been fraud. From Hegestratos, the first recorded fraudster in 350 BC Ancient Greece, to Charles Ponzi’s infamous scheme of redistributing investments, to the present day, criminals have always tried to find new and more sophisticated ways to dupe people out of their money. …Continue Reading: Scams can be complex, so let’s stop playing the blame game
How you could be helping email scammers without even knowing
Let’s get one thing clear from the start; we’re not accusing you of deliberately abetting criminals, but anyone with a sloppy cyber and email security setup is most likely unwittingly aiding them. …Continue Reading: How you could be helping email scammers without even knowing
