By Avinash Singh and Hein Venter, Department of Computer Science at the University of Pretoria Ransomware is one of the most destructive forms of malware which targets the most important asset of any organisation or system, their data. Ransomware targets...
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Ransomware is used by cyber criminals to block you from accessing your data and hold it ‘hostage’ until you pay the ransom. How does it work and how to avoid losing control over your data? Read our tips and tricks below and become a cyber hero! Tip 1...
The CIRT of the Faculty Computer Science of the University of Skopje was founded 2.5 years ago as the result of a cybersecurity exercise which brought to light the need to raise cyber security awareness and coordinate the response to potential cyber...
By Nicla Ivana Diomede, Chief Information Security Officer at the University of Milan What is Phishing? Phishing is a type of fraud aimed at illegally stealing confidential information such as login credentials (username and password), credit card...
By Sonja Filiposka and Anastas Mishev, respectively head and former head of FINKI CIRT Nowadays phishing attacks are one of the most notorious and dangerous threats to any organisation. It is estimated that the financial impact of phishing attacks could...
By Maria Sole Scollo, IT security expert at Consortium GARR Even if phishing has been for many years now a well-known illegal practice, asking people for their sensitive information is still the most effective way for cyber criminals to get them. A good...
Continues from Demystiphying phishing – Part 1 By Damien Mascré, David Verdin, Laurent Aublet-Cuvelier (RENATER) Phishing aims to steal your secrets. Actually, it is even more malicious than that; it is designed to make you voluntarily hand over...
By Damien Mascré, David Verdin, Laurent Aublet-Cuvelier (RENATER) On the list of the many issues inflicted by emails, phishing appears to be social disease: rare, shameful and unfortunately fatal. Phishing occurs when a message appears to come from one...
In the current climate we live in with many of us working remotely or from home, the importance of security awareness has increased drastically. It is known and has been publicised that much of cyber risk can be associated with a potential lack of a...
In 2020 we cannot doubt the threat posed by phishing; we could spend so much time trying to size the risks for our organisations and society. I am not even sure I could give an accurate estimation of this risk. There is so much unknown. However, for many...
