Security News

Business Email Compromises Fuel Procurement Fraud
2018-09-21 20:03

Allan Stojanovic of the University of Toronto on Fraud-Fighting ChallengesBusiness email compromises have been at the center of a number of procurement fraud scams, says Allan Stojanovic, a...

US State Department confirms: Unclassified staff email boxes hacked
2018-09-18 21:57

Pompeo's peeps get free credit monitoring after some inboxes cracked open, data swiped The US State Department has confirmed one of its email systems was attacked, potentially exposing the...

The top 11 phishing email subject lines SMBs should look out for
2018-09-18 18:23

Phishing is the biggest threat facing SMBs, according to the 2018 Webroot SMB Pulse Report.

Week in review: API security, malware-less email attacks, reversing the cybersecurity skills shortage
2018-09-16 17:31

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: What can we do to reverse the cybersecurity skills shortage? Having a strong pipeline of talent coming through is...

Analysis of half-a-billion emails reveals malware-less email attacks are on the rise
2018-09-14 05:45

FireEye analyzed over half-a-billion emails from 1H 2018, and found that 32% of email traffic seen in the first half of 2018 was considered ‘clean’ and actually delivered to an inbox. Their report...

Princely five years in the big house for Nigerian business email scammer
2018-09-13 21:12

Bloke copped to $25m spear-phishing scheme A Nigerian man will be spending the next five years in a US prison after pleading guilty to operating a phishing scheme targeting businesses around the world.…

Threatlist: Email Attacks Surge, Targeting Execs
2018-09-11 22:17

Overall, the number of email fraud attacks per targeted company rose 25 percent from the previous quarter (to 35 on average) and 85 percent from the year-ago quarter.

Yikes: 1 in 5 employees share their email passwords with coworkers
2018-09-11 12:47

19% of employees of small and medium-sized businesses share their passwords with coworkers or assistants, according to a recent survey.

Email security crisis... What email security crisis?
2018-09-11 08:13

Let them eat phish In late August, Microsoft announced a free service that arguably reveals more about the future of the email business and its struggles with security than several years' worth of...

Why that email from your boss could be a scam waiting to happen
2018-09-10 15:15

Impersonation fraud is on the rise, and SMBs lose an average of $35,000 to these attacks, according to Lloyds Bank.