Security News

Google Tells Toomey Hackers Tried to Infiltrate Staff Email
2018-08-27 10:01

Google has alerted U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey's office that hackers with ties to a "nation-state" sent phishing emails to old campaign email accounts, a spokesman for the Pennsylvania Republican said...

6.4 billion fake emails sent every day
2018-08-24 11:30

The Valimail Q2 2018 Email Fraud Landscape shows that fake email continues to be a serious problem, with an estimated 6.4 billion fake emails sent every day. That total includes only exact-domain...

Turla Backdoor Controlled via Email Attachments
2018-08-23 17:53

ESET security researchers have analyzed a new backdoor used by the Russian-speaking advanced persistent threat (APT) group known as Turla. read more

How to send a confidential email in Gmail on Android, iOS
2018-08-20 13:43

Gmail users can set an expiration date or revoke access to messages through confidential mode. Here's how to use the feature on mobile.

Telecom services: Patient zero for email-based attacks?
2018-08-17 11:50

Organizations offering telecommunication services are seeing more advanced malware threats than organizations in other industries, Lastline researchers have found. They have come to that...

Email Phishers Using New Way to Bypass Microsoft Office 365 Protections
2018-08-15 18:33

Phishing works no matter how hard a company tries to protect its customers or employees. Security researchers have been warning of a new phishing attack that cybercriminals and email scammers are...

Prank 'Give me a raise!' email nearly lands sysadmin with dismissal
2018-08-13 09:45

Staffer learns hard way: boss jokes don't mix well with infosec demos Who, Me? Welcome again to Who, Me?, where we invite Reg readers to begin the week crossing their fingers it will be better...

Rise in email impersonation attacks makes companies re-assess their security efforts
2018-08-03 11:30

Most companies believe they’ve experienced serious data breaches driven by email impersonation in the past 12 months – but are not doing nearly enough to prevent future impersonation attacks,...

Putting the ass in Atlassian: Helpdesk email server passwords blabbed to strangers
2018-08-02 21:56

Logins misdirected to wrong boxes by Jira toolkit Exclusive Atlassian has warned users of its Jira Service Desk toolkit to change their helpdesk email account passwords – after a glitch caused the...