Security News

Capita Education Services accidentally spaffs email addresses in Helpdesk snafu
2020-01-22 10:30

Capita Education Services had a bit of an oopsie yesterday as a new helpdesk system spurted potentially thousands of email addresses at unsuspecting users. A Register reader got in touch to express his surprise at receiving an email regarding a helpdesk ticket he didn't open, logged by someone he didn't know.

Email security industry miss rates when encountering threats are higher than 20%
2020-01-22 05:30

Email security miss rates are definitely a huge issue. BitDam conducted an empirical study to measure leading email security products' ability to detect unknown threats at first encounter.

BitDam Study Exposes High Miss Rates of Leading Email Security Systems
2020-01-21 04:08

BitDam published a new study on the email threat detection weaknesses of the leading players in email security, and the findings command attention. How Leading Security Systems Prevent Attacks Email security systems address cyber threats by scanning links and attachments to determine if they are safe or not.

New phishing attack hijacks email conversations: How companies can protect employees
2020-01-17 15:00

There are ways to protect your company and employees from this type of attack, according to a new report from Barracuda Networks. Through domain impersonation or spoofing, attackers send emails to employees with phony domain names that appear legitimate or create websites with altered names.

New phishing attack hijacks email conversations: How companies can protect employees
2020-01-17 15:00

There are ways to protect your company and employees from this type of attack, according to a new report from Barracuda Networks. Through domain impersonation or spoofing, attackers send emails to employees with phony domain names that appear legitimate or create websites with altered names.

CloudNine Collection Manager: Data extraction solution for Office 365 emails and OneDrive files
2020-01-17 03:00

CloudNine launches CloudNine Collection Manager, a breakthrough data extraction solution from the global electronic discovery technology provider. Installed in minutes, Collection Manager defensibly performs native data collections from Office 365 email custodians, as well as Microsoft OneDrive cloud storage files.

Someone needs to go back to school: Texas district fleeced for $2.3m after staff fall for devious phishing email
2020-01-13 20:22

A miscreant managed to swipe $2.3m from a Texas school district after staff inadvertently wired large sums of public money to the crook's bank account. The school district did not say exactly how scumbags were able to extract so much money, though telly station CBS Austin reported the money was funneled out in three separate transactions in November.

Office 365 users: Beware of phishing emails pointing to Office Sway
2020-01-10 10:52

The latest example of this involves Office 365 users being directed to phishing and malicious pages hosted on Office Sway, a web application for content creation that's part of Microsoft Office. "The Sway page will include trusted brand names. Most commonly, the spoofed brands are Microsoft-affiliated, just like the SharePoint logo shown in the example above," Avanan explained.

BitDam ATP protects LSH Auto UK from malicious and phishing email
2020-01-08 03:01

BitDam, provider of cybersecurity solutions that protect enterprise communications from advanced threats hidden in files and links, announced that its BitDam Advanced Threat Protection solution is now installed at LSH Auto UK Ltd, part of the world's largest Mercedes-Benz Dealer Group, in an effort to cost-effectively enhance the company's email security posture. PCM advised LSH to look at BitDam to help it to neutralize corporate risk as well as provide protection for customers who may be compromised as a result of phishing attacks.

IoT Company Wyze Leaks Emails, Device Data of 2.4M
2019-12-30 16:53

The Internet of Things vendor confirmed that customer data was left unsecured on an Elasticsearch database.