Elements of an Attack: From the article at TechNewsWorld. Social Engineering is equivalent to scammers trying all types of methods to gain information or money. What does it mean to have an image above that shows many possible Social engineering attacks? Let’s list them: Techniques Phishing Pretexting Baiting Quid Pro Quo Compliance principles Friendship or … Read more
Just a few cartoons for this Friday – 10/11/19
In a year of many problems and issues the Department of Homeland Security decided to make October the National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM) since 2003. https://www.dhs.gov/national-cyber-security-awareness-month The Theme is Own IT. Secure IT. Protect IT. Own IT is reminding you to travel with cybersecurity in mind (at least some of the time), Social … Read more
The top Cybersecurity problem (or risk) is phishing emails and ransomware downloaded to your computer or your website. When a phishing email somehow gets you to click a link that then downloads an infected “payload” into your computer you can only hope that the anti-virus you have (and/or firewall) will protect you from the … Read more
Active directory is the Microsoft software that manages all the information of objects on the network . (from docs.microsoft.com ) “A directory is a hierarchical structure that stores information about objects on the network. A directory service, such as Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS), provides the methods for storing directory data and making this … Read more