How can you protect yourself from social engineering

Social engineering is a type of cyber security attack that relies on human interaction to trick victims into giving up their personal information or taking actions that compromise their security. Social engineers often use emotional appeals, threats, or other tactics to manipulate their victims. Common types of social engineering attacks: Phishing:  This is an attack…

The Log4j vulnerability and how to update

Log4j is a popular java logging framework. There are currently almost 7,000 Maven artifacts that depend on the vulnerable artifact log4j-core, and there are countless Java projects that use it. The vulnerabilities allow an attacker to perform remote code execution by exploiting the insecure JNDI lookups feature exposed by the logging library log4j. This exploitable feature was…