Estimated difficulty: 💜🤍🤍🤍🤍 Happy Friday and happy (continued) cybersecurity awareness month! For those of you that don’t know, October is renowned for being cybersecurity awareness month – a month dedicated by security professionals to raise awareness in cybersecurity, specifically to the everyday user of technology that may not be security-savvy. Continue Reading
Use Somebody: Romance Scams and Modern Dating
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Welcome to Friday, and Cybersecurity Awareness Month. In October, security professionals spend the month raising awareness about cybersecurity and posting tips on social media about online safety.
Locked Out: What is Ransomware?
Estimated difficulty: 💜🤍🤍🤍🤍 Ransomware can be a costly attack to organisations of all sizes. Recently Garmin fell victim to a ransomware attack, with reported ransoms of up to US$10 million in exchange to reinstate company files. According to a The State of Ransomware 2020 by Sophos, the global average cost Continue Reading
Misery Business: Sextortion Emails
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Content Warning: This post includes discussion of sensitive topics such as revenge porn and blackmail. This week I’m primarily going to cover sextortion phishing campaigns, and a little about how to deal with these sorts of emails. I’ll also include some resources at the end of the post discussing general (non-phishing) sextortion, and organisations who can help if somebody tries to blackmail you with, or releases your personal content without your consent.
B3st Pass**rd Pr@ct!ces
Estimated difficulty: 💜🤍🤍🤍🤍 Passwords have been a form of securing your accounts for years. They are your key to unlock the door to your account for want of a better metaphor. You are the only person that should know your password, as the creator and keeper of this information. My Continue Reading
Thnks fr th Bnk Dtls: A Quick Guide to Fraud
Estimated difficulty: 💜🤍🤍🤍🤍 Hello, and welcome to another week of Security Queens! 🎉 This week I’ll try to give you a quick overview (not exhaustive) of a few common types of fraud, a bit of information about money laundering, and a little perspective about how it all ties into the Continue Reading