One day last week, I got a phone call from my mother-in-law. I know this sounds like the set-up for a joke, but it isn’t. “Where are you?” she practically shouted. A strange question, in that she phoned me at my home. Then she asked me, in an even more
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Cowichan Conversations: How Many of These Security Mistakes Are You Making?
It is so easy to relax and get sucked into malicious links, emails and other inducements. Time to update, add protections and pay attention to some of the pitfalls as mentioned in this Jeff Fox Read more…
Continue readingEclectic Lip: The biology of phishing
Some nefarious group recently made a phishing attempt against me, trying to lure me into providing bank account information in response to an Official Looking email. Presumably, the combination of spam filters and alert consumers means phishing has a very, very low success rate. Fortunately for criminals, email has virtually no incremental
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