Email attachment malware - a Smashing Security splinter
Smashing Security
Graham Cluley
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2017
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Email attachment malware is the thorny topic tackled by computer security veterans Graham Cluley, Carole Theriault and Vanja Svajcer in this "splinter" episode from the Smashing Security team.
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| 0:00.0 | Smashing Security, splinter episode, email attachment malware with Carol Terrio, Van Yars Schweitzer and Graham Cluley. |
| 0:16.4 | Hello and welcome to another episode of Smashing Security. It's a splinter episode where we're going to be offering some top tips on how to better secure your computer and protect yourself online. |
| 0:27.9 | And I don't know about you guys, but haven't there been lots of predictions that email malware was dead? |
| 0:35.6 | And we wasn't going to be a problem anymore. |
| 0:37.3 | Well, there were predictions that email would be dead. And it wasn't going to be a problem anymore. |
| 0:39.9 | Well, there were predictions that email would be dead. |
| 0:45.0 | Well, I would argue that email is dead for some generation. |
| 0:49.9 | However, in day-to-day kind of work and job and we still have to use it. And it's still, I find it really useful. |
| 0:52.5 | And I consider myself to be the email generation, rather than Facebook or WhatsApp or whatever. Exactly. There's a lot, yeah, there's a lot of companies I work with now who actually use, you know, tools like Slack, for example, to do all their, yeah, to do all their, you know, to do all their, uh, internal communications. Um, But I'm email generation too, I'm afraid. |
| 1:12.4 | I'm a bit of a fan. |
| 1:14.1 | And tools like that may be all right for internal communications. |
| 1:16.8 | I'm not a great lover of them myself. |
| 1:19.0 | But suddenly when you start dealing with the outside world and with customers, email is king. |
| 1:24.8 | And of course, the bad guys, the malicious hackers, the malware authors, they're |
| 1:29.2 | well aware that just about everyone on the internet has an email address. And so that is one of the |
| 1:33.4 | primary ways in which they try to infect your computer, whether you be at home or at work. And so I |
| 1:39.7 | thought today it would be good for us to chat about email attachment malware. |
| 1:48.9 | You know, it's been really over 20 years now that this has been a problem. |
| 1:52.1 | And it continues to be a big deal, doesn't it? |
| 1:53.8 | Can you remember the old ones, Graham? |
| 1:55.0 | Can you remember the old ones? Ah, yeah. |
| 1:56.1 | Oh, you tell kids, you know, they don't believe how terrible it used to be in too old day with things |
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