Taking care of your IT security has never been more important or more of a challenge. Working from home has afforded new opportunities for social engineering attacks on you or your workforce.<\/p>\n
These include; phishing, spear phishing, identity theft, baiting and tailgating attacks.<\/p>\n
If any of these terms were new to you, it\u2019s time to refresh your cyber security skills.<\/p>\n
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The big Twitter hack<\/h3>\n
Perhaps the best (and we mean this is the most negative way) hack of 2020 so far has been on Twitter.<\/p>\n
The tech company had 130 high profile Twitter accounts hacked at the same time – including those of Barak Obama, Elon Musk and Kim Kardashian.<\/p>\n
The scammer raised about R180,000 worth of Bitcoin through false donations before Twitter deleted the scam tweets.<\/p>\n
They had to block every blue tick user from tweeting until the security breach was found. How did they do it? Social engineering.<\/p>\n
While the headlines would have you believe that the Twitter scam was some sophisticated hack, it was simply a phone call to admin staff at the cyber giant\u2019s HQ.<\/p>\n
The hacker managed to get the admin\u2019s privilege account credentials and, in turn, got access to the backend of the Twitter system.<\/p>\n
The pandemic has definitely shifted our priorities and expectations more than we could ever anticipate.<\/p>\n
Cybersecurity and your organisation<\/h3>\n
One of the biggest shifts in thinking has been in the importance of cyber security infrastructure.<\/p>\n
Microsoft recently released new statistics showing high levels of security concerns and plans to add a significant budget to cyber security.<\/p>\n
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The tech sphere is constantly changing, and as such, cyber security does too.<\/p>\n
The onus on organisations is to keep up with constantly evolving technology.<\/p>\n
The Cyber Academy, in partnership with FPD School of IT, offers specialised courses designed from the perspective of the hacker.<\/p>\n
Our course changes as often as the digital climate does, but we also understand that the biggest threat to your digital security is you.<\/p>\n
The individual is, despite sophisticated antivirus and cyber security software, your organization’s biggest threat. Understanding social engineering can help you to avoid becoming a statistic.<\/p>\n
We understand that your operational resilience relies on your cyber security.<\/p>\n