Spear-Phishing Attacks, What It Is and How It Can Be Prevented

A phishing or spear-phishing attack is one of the most common cyber security attacks due to its simplicity and effectiveness. A phishing attack is a socially engineered attack in which the threat actor uses a litany of methods to trick an authorized user into revealing the threat actor their login credentials. After obtaining said login credentials it’s most common for the perpetrator of the phishing attack to sell them on dark web markets or they use your credentials to enter the organization's system to extract data or establish a back door and lie and wait. The attempts to contact the authorized user are usually done through the medium of emails, texts, calls, direct messages, and in some more sophisticated cases through physical mail.

January 3, 2023

Emery Wollerscheid

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8 Things about Tailgating in Cyber Security that You Didn’t Know

Tailgating is the practice of following someone else into a secured space. The term originated in physical security when a security guard would stop a person trying to enter a building by tailgating behind another person who was permitted access. In cyber security, tailgating refers to various attacks that involve exploiting trust to gain access to a system or network. One of the most basic forms of tailgating involves tricking a person into giving a malicious actor access to a system or network.

January 3, 2023

Emery Wollersheid

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5 things about Spooling in Cyber Security and How to Mitigate It

Spooling attacks are incredibly low complexity attacks making it easy for threat actors to inject malicious code and successfully execute code remotely. This is a critical severity vulnerability and must be handled with the utmost urgency in patching and remediation of said vulnerability.

August 15, 2022

Emery Wollerscheid

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