Avoiding Email mistakes
Overview Email is still one of the primary ways we communicate, both in our personal and professional lives. However, quite often we can...
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Kurt Schmidt
- Sep 30, 2021
- 3 min
Priority Email Scam
Cyber criminals now have a wealth of information on almost all of us. With so many organizations getting hacked, cyber criminals simply...
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Kurt Schmidt
- Sep 28, 2021
- 1 min
The News Organizations that you can find REAL Facts and not alternative facts
The New York Times The Wall Street Journal The Washington Post BBC The Economist The NewYorker The Associated Press Reuters Bloomberg...
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Kurt Schmidt
- Sep 27, 2021
- 3 min
cyber-crisis readiness
Talent is the most important part of cyber-crisis preparedness. 1. Talent & planning The most essential component of cyber resilience...
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Kurt Schmidt
- Sep 24, 2021
- 1 min
Do you have bad practices in your business? Probably yes. time to fix them.
If your doing any of these 3 (and you probably are) you need to fix them ASAP. Use of unsupported (or end-of-life) software in service...
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Kurt Schmidt
- Sep 23, 2021
- 1 min
Tip of the Day: passwords
First part of the Tip: Don't do what is pictured above. EVER! So password Tips, Don't write down your password anywhere. Don't save...
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Kurt Schmidt
- Sep 22, 2021
- 1 min
Chinese Backdoors found in US Grid
Two of the most consequential control system cyber events (attacks) in 2020 were supply chain attacks. The first event was the Chinese...
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Kurt Schmidt
- Sep 21, 2021
- 3 min
Security of Undersea Internet Cables
If you’ve ever emailed a resort in Fiji or Vanuatu about that long-awaited holiday, it’s likely your email travelled through an undersea...
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Kurt Schmidt
- Sep 20, 2021
- 3 min
Security pact between Australia, the UK and US
We live, to borrow a phrase, in interesting times. The pandemic aside, relations between the superpowers are tense. The sudden arrival of...
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Kurt Schmidt
- Sep 17, 2021
- 4 min
Enterprises can’t ignore the risk of cyber attacks: the threat is on the rise
Risk managers in South Africa must suffer perpetual headaches these days. There is a crammed list of risk management priorities to...
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Kurt Schmidt
- Sep 16, 2021
- 4 min
Facebook or Twitter posts can now be quietly modified by the government under new surveillance laws
A new law gives Australian police unprecedented powers for online surveillance, data interception and altering data. These powers,...
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Kurt Schmidt
- Sep 15, 2021
- 3 min
Just one Simple Step to Secure Your Accounts
Overview Does it seem like cyber criminals have a magic wand for getting into your email or bank accounts and there’s nothing you can do...
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Kurt Schmidt
- Sep 14, 2021
- 1 min
Spoofed Session Flood
In order to circumvent network protection tools, cybercriminals may forge a TCP session more efficiently by submitting a bogus SYN...
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Kurt Schmidt
- Sep 13, 2021
- 1 min
CHARGEN Flood
Similarly to NTP, the Character Generator Protocol (CHARGEN) is an oldie whose emergence dates back to the 1980s. In spite of this, it is...
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Kurt Schmidt
- Sep 10, 2021
- 1 min
SSDP Flood
Malefactors can exploit networked devices running Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) services by executing a Simple Service Discovery...
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Kurt Schmidt
- Sep 9, 2021
- 1 min
SNMP Amplification
Tasked with harvesting and arranging data about connected devices, the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) can become a pivot of...
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Kurt Schmidt
- Sep 8, 2021
- 1 min
HTTP Flood
When executing an HTTP Flood DDoS attack, an adversary sends ostensibly legitimate GET or POST requests to a server or web application,...
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Kurt Schmidt
- Sep 7, 2021
- 1 min
Recursive HTTP GET Flood
To perpetrate this attack, a malicious actor requests an array of web pages from a server, inspects the replies, and iteratively requests...
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Kurt Schmidt
- Sep 6, 2021
- 1 min
ICMP Flood
Also referred to as Ping Flood, this incursion aims to inundate a server or other network device with numerous spoofed Internet Control...
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Kurt Schmidt
- Sep 3, 2021
- 1 min
Misused Application Attack
Instead of using spoofed IP addresses, this attack parasitizes legitimate client computers running resource-intensive applications such...
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