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TalkTalk says WalkWalk if you've got a mouldy Tiscali email address, or pay £50 a year to keep it
2019-10-04 12:14

UK ISP gives legacy ex-customers an ultimatum TalkTalk will start charging £50 a year for its legacy email accounts unless you sign up as a broadband customer of the breach-scarred telco. And if...

'Vendor Email Compromise': A New Attack Twist
2019-10-02 21:18

Agari Researchers Describe a New Flavor of Business Email Compromise ScamsA newly discovered cybercriminal gang is putting a twist on business email compromise scams by initially targeting vendors...

Former! Yahoo! engineer! admits! to! hacking! user! emails! for! smutty! snaps!
2019-10-01 18:32

Yahooligan accessed about 6,000 accounts to hunt for revealing photos and videos Former Yahoo! software engineer Reyes Daniel Ruiz has pleaded guilty in a California federal court to one count of...

Email is an open door for malicious actors looking to exploit businesses
2019-10-01 04:30

There’s an alarming scale of risks businesses are up against in a time when email is proving an open door for cybercriminals and malicious actors looking to disrupt, exploit and destroy...

Critical Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Patched in Exim Email Server
2019-09-30 16:47

A Critical vulnerability recently addressed in the popular open-source email server Exim could lead to remote code execution.  Exim is an open source mail transfer agent (MTA) widely used in...

New Critical Exim Flaw Exposes Email Servers to Remote Attacks — Patch Released
2019-09-30 12:34

A critical security vulnerability has been discovered and fixed in the popular open-source Exim email server software, which could allow a remote attacker to simply crash or potentially execute...

Responding to email-based attacks takes over three hours, on average
2019-09-26 20:17

Manually addressing breaches that result from email-based attacks is a time sink for IT professionals, according to a Barracuda report.

Outlook for Web Bans 38 More File Extensions in Email Attachments
2019-09-26 19:19

Malware or computer virus can infect your computer in several different ways, but one of the most common methods of its delivery is through malicious file attachments over emails that execute the...

'Chameleon' Spam Campaign Employs Randomized Email Headers
2019-09-26 15:03

A large number of spam messages recently sent from the same botnet were observed featuring randomized headers and even different templates, with some emails resembling phishing, Trustwave reports....

TalkTalk still struggles to shut down legacy email addresses on request
2019-09-26 08:15

Another ex-customer struggles to get hacked account killed off Months after The Register first wrote about TalkTalk failing to close a former customer's email address, the firm is still using the...