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What actually happens when you click on a link within a “PayPal” email? Here is one example.

Details: Category: Cyber Security (Personal)

Spoofed eBay or PayPal emails have been around for at least ten years and are one of the most common. Most people have caught up to the fact they are phoney but over the years the temptation is getting greater to open the email. All because the writers are getting into people’s heads.

Anatomy of a DOCM (Microsoft Word macro document) email based virus

Details: Category: Cyber Security (Personal)

DOCM files are Microsoft Word files, with the “M” standing for Macro. Macro files or codes should always been viewed with caution. This email came from a semi-advanced and semi-targeted email campaign directed at ICAS (Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland) members in the second quarter of 2014.

Encryption software - Free And Open Source Vs. Proprietary

Details: Category: Cyber Security (Personal)

In this article Graeme Batsman looks at open source and proprietary (both paid for and free) encryption software. Encryption software encrypts (or encodes) data and means that the human eye cannot understand it without the means to decrypt it, for example, if gets into the wrong hands.

Why encrypt?
Cryptography has existed for thousands of years, starting off with the ancient Egyptians, to the Greeks and Romans, and most recently (and most famously), Bletchley Park and the Enigma code breakers of World War II.