Security News

US embassy accidentally emails invitation to ‘cat pyjama-jam’ meeting
2018-10-16 13:48

Canberra’s US embassy accidentally exposed details of one of its more enticing get-togethers last week, featuring a cat in a Cookie Monster outfit.

Beware sextortionists spoofing your own email address
2018-10-15 12:25

In the past, they've pretended to have your passwords - now they're pretending to send email from your "hacked" account, too.

Defending Against Business Email Compromise Attacks
2018-10-10 16:33

What can organizations do to thwart business email compromise attacks? In an interview, David Stubley, CEO of the consultancy 7 Elements, outlines several key steps. He'll be a featured speaker at...

Sendgrid blurts out OWN customers' email addresses with no help from hackers
2018-10-04 10:47

Along came some spiders and saw the unsubscribers... Cloud-based email marketing service SendGrid has copped to blabbing customer email addresses, chalking it up to some overenthusiastic indexing...

Firefox Monitor starts tracking breached email addresses
2018-09-27 11:09

Mozilla has formally launched Firefox Monitor, a privacy-engineered website that hooks up to Troy Hunt’s Have I Been Pwned? (HIBP) breach notification database.

Firefox Monitor tells you whether your email was compromised in a data breach
2018-09-26 09:50

After a few months of user testing, Mozilla has launched Firefox Monitor, a free online service that allows users to check whether their email address was involved in a publicly known data breach...

How to Spot and Stop Newer Email Threats
2018-09-24 19:18

Proofpoint's Denis Ryan on How Defenses Can Adapt to Latest AttacksEmail fraud threats have evolved from attackers targeting networks to them focusing on specific individuals within an...

Baddies just need one email account with clout to unleash phishing hell
2018-09-24 15:31

Third parties realised uni was compromised before uni did A single account compromise at an unnamed "major university" in the UK led to a large-scale phishing attack against third parties,...

iTunes is assigning you a ‘trust score’ based on emails and phone calls
2018-09-24 09:49

It's just a number to detect fraud, not a Black Mirror-esque score that's going to rate us all as social misfits unworthy of wedding invitations.

Agari Fall ‘18 release completes automated email security solution powered by AI
2018-09-21 21:00

Agari announced its Fall ‘18 release, a series of enhancements for the Agari Email Trust Platform — the industry’s automated email security solution powered by artificial intelligence. Agari...