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You user gets an important business document to respond to. It is deemed safe because the email security layer has let it in, it comes from a known email contact and all they need to do is download the “important” document.  They get redirected to a file sharing service which gets them to download the

It was just yesterday that most of the world was in lockdown, then today we look up and it is half way through November 2023. It sometimes feels like 3 years have been condensed into 1. The Rolling Stones just released a new album, The Beatles have released a new song & both rushed to

Nobody will want to target us, we have nothing to steal. We are not important enough. We are not big enough. All our email is in the cloud, so we are ok. These are some of the excuses we hear from Small and Medium business owners when we speak to them about the cyber risk

Is The Second Half of 2023 Your Time to Shine? The last three years have proven that most of what we understand to be correct can be changed in days. Those restful days of small and incremental changes to the environment in which we operate are gone. We live in the time of hyper connected,

am constantly seeing and hearing more talk about the risk posed by insiders when it comes to business risk. The talk of insider risk and the threat to the business, threats to compliance and security has been amplified in recent weeks, yet very few businesses have any form of Insider Risk Management program in place. 

Microsoft 365 servers contain extremely sensitive information and most organisations simply cannot do without it for an extended period of time. Zero-day attacks – those attacks that take advantage of a vulnerability in software or firmware, and found by cybercriminals before a vendor can issue a fix – are one of the cybercriminal’s greatest advantages. Often providing

Over the last month the J2 Software team have noticed an increase in an evolved method in change of bank details or payment fraud. While this might sound like old news, this now more directly involves the CEO. Traditional payment fraud has been rife for some time where the cyber criminal impersonates the CEO, or

Cyber criminals constantly adapt their approach to deceive their targets and increase their success rate. The J2 cyber security team have seen a new trend developing that speaks directly to this phenomenon. Our team have been involved in several investigations in the last few weeks and uncovered an adapted approach to completing a successful change

Attack on credit bureau exposes 24 million South African’s personal detailsBy Cybersecurity expert and J2 Software CEO John Mc Loughlin South Africans now have another thing to worry about, their personal information has been lost to a fraudster who has gained access to 24 million people’s information. The information in question is the exact detail

Today is bittersweet. 14 years ago today I walked into my first day at a new job. The first day of J2 Software. After months of planning, setbacks, re-planning, negotiation, doubt and confidence the first day in our “office” was here. 3 April 2006 and I proudly walked into the warehouse area of E-Bis armed