{"id":21646,"date":"2019-12-13T10:06:10","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T10:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/?p=21646"},"modified":"2019-12-17T11:39:48","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T11:39:48","slug":"another-reason-to-attend-our-cyber-security-training-session-on-17th-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/2019\/12\/another-reason-to-attend-our-cyber-security-training-session-on-17th-december\/","title":{"rendered":"Another reason to attend our Cyber Security training session on 17th December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Update: session now postponed until Monday 20th January 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You may not think your charity or voluntary group is particularly at risk of cyber attack, but have another think.\u00a0 Some forms of cyber attack are more subtle than you\u2019d think.\u00a0 Only this week there has been an important security alert issued from the Charity Commission which is worth taking note of (below). If you\u2019ve got any concerns about this then now is the time to get some free advice.\u00a0 You can find out more about this scam, other frauds, how to protect yourself for more via Karl Elliott at VANEL who is running free Cyber Security training sessions. The next is on <a href=\"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/event\/cyber-security-training-for-small-charities-and-community-groups-3\/\"><strong>17th December (1pm-4pm) at VANEL offices<\/strong><\/a> (23 Bargate). Contact Karl to book \u2013 <a href=\"mailto:karl@vanel.org.uk\">karl@vanel.org.uk<\/a> \/ 01472 231123.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Important security alert from the Charity Commission<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Charity Commission has received several reports from charities who have been targeted by fraudsters impersonating members of staff via email, specifically attempting to change employees&#8217; bank details.<\/p>\n<p>The Commission <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/alert-for-charities-fraudsters-impersonating-staff\">is warning charities<\/a> to be vigilant and to look out for requests to your HR department, finance department or staff with authority to update employees&#8217; bank details, usually from a spoofed or similar email address to that of the subject being impersonated. The fraudster often states that they have changed their bank details or opened a new bank account.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original notice with more information here <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/alert-for-charities-fraudsters-impersonating-staff\">https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/alert-for-charities-fraudsters-impersonating-staff<\/a><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-21646\" data-postid=\"21646\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-21646 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A warning this week from the Charity Commission warns charities to be aware of a dangerous scam. Read on for the details and a note about the opportunity to get some free cyber security training.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"xn-wppe-expiration":[],"xn-wppe-expiration-action":[],"xn-wppe-expiration-prefix":[],"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[128],"tags":[619],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3cThd-5D8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21646"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21646"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21653,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21646\/revisions\/21653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}