Security News

G Suite admins need to RTFM - thousands expose internal emails
2018-06-04 05:55

The manual is confusing, to be fair, but a third of users read it wrong and are dangling data If you're sysadmin of an organisation using Google Groups and G Suite, you need to revisit your...

In Australia, Email Compromise Scams Hit Real Estate
2018-06-01 15:33

Property Industry Has Been Caught Off Guard, Expert SaysLate last year in Australia, cybercriminals began targeting a fertile yet relatively poorly protected business sector for so-called business...

Law forcing Feds to get warrants for email slurping is sneaked into US military budget
2018-05-30 21:35

House slips privacy rules into Senate's files, crosses fingers The US House of Representatives has once again advanced a law bill that would always require the FBI and cops to obtain a warrant...

BCC is hard, OK? Quite a lot of orgs blurted your email addresses in GDPR mailouts
2018-05-29 14:02

Ad blocker Ghostery, UK councils, vitamin sellers all in the blabtastic mix Amid the chaos of new European data protection rules coming into force at the end of last week, organisations are...

A New Look at Email Security
2018-05-25 14:18

File-less malware is a huge security challenge for organizations today, and traditional email security controls aren't sufficient to meet the challenge. Burke Long of Lastline offers insight on a...

Email Leakage - An Overlooked Backdoor to GDPR Failure
2018-05-25 13:45

On May 25, 2018, two years after it was adopted by the European Union, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force. For two years companies have been bombarded with offers for...

Agari Employs Active Defense to Probe Nigerian Email Scammers
2018-05-23 15:46

Agari, a firm that offers protection against email-borne threats, has spent the last 10 months analyzing the targets, tactics and identities of 10 separate criminal organizations. All ten...

The operations and economics of organized criminal email groups
2018-05-22 11:30

Nine of the 10 captured organized criminal email groups operate out of Nigeria, they all leverage a multitude of attack methods, and business email compromise (BEC) is far more lucrative than any...

The EFAIL vulnerability – why it’s OK to keep on using email
2018-05-15 11:18

The EFAIL bug shows how to trick some mail clients into turning the email encryption tools S/MIME and OpenPGP against themselves.

S/MIME artists: EFAIL email app flaws put a bomb under PGP-encrypted messages
2018-05-14 20:39

If a hacker can get into your inbox of ciphered messages, they may be able to read the content Security researchers have gone public with vulnerabilities in some secure mail apps that can be...