This is the third blog in our series about malicious emails. You can read the first two blogs, How to identify malicious emails and Is the mail really malicious by clicking on the links. What to do with a suspected malicious email The answer to this is quite simple: delete the email. You can ignore…
Following on from yesterdays blog, How to identify malicious emails, today we will look at whether the email is actually malicious and some techniques scammers use to make it seem legitimate. Is the mail really malicious? Please note that you need to weigh all the red flags in yesterday’s blog if you want to rule…
We all get our share of spam, some more than others. But how do we differentiate between simple commercial spam and the types of emails that are sent with malicious intent? The unsolicited commercial spam email is generally easy to recognise, report, and discard, but what about more dangerous types of spam? How can you…
Recently we have been talking to more and more of our customers around the integrity of their data within cloud services, most notably Microsoft Office 365 but the concepts discussed here are also transferable to other cloud services. Office 365 is ubiquitous within business and Lucidity are constantly migrating customers and their data into the…
At one of my first IT jobs working as a technician, I remember a lady running up to our helpdesk and desperately pleading with us to help her recover documents of a personal nature from an external hard drive that had broken. The documents? Her only copies of wedding photos and pictures of her first…
Here at Lucidity, we take network security seriously. The number of threats to your data is increasing daily, you just need to read the news to hear about another innocent person falling victim to digital degenerates, so to protect yourself and your data, you need to invest in good network protection systems. This is where…
Update your password before you go so it doesn’t expire Our password policy means that if you are lucky enough to have a few weeks of leave and have not recently changed your password – there is a high chance that your password will expire over the Christmas period so please try and update your…
Our support team have seen a few different types of malicious emails floating around over the last few weeks targeted at some of our customers so we thought we’d send a quick update out to address these types of emails and what you can do to keep them at bay. We have touched on many…
We have all heard the horror stories in the media, companies big and small having their data held to ransom, or CFO’s & Finance teams being tricked into releasing large sums of money as payments requested by somebody masquerading as a CEO or GM. In my previous blog post, I mentioned that typically the first…
Office 365 has been very well received by organisations, and the platform has been an integral stepping stone to the cloud for many businesses. However, there are many features in Office 365 which are underutilised or not utilised at all. We live in a world where business-critical information is stored in emails, financial documents can…
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