Security News

How Three of 2018's Critical Threats Used Email to Execute Attacks
2019-03-21 16:38

History Tends to Repeat Itself - Attackers Repurpose Tried and Tested Methods to Launch Attacks read more

Latest tactics used by cybercriminals to bypass traditional email security
2019-03-21 05:15

Cybercriminals are continuously using new strategies to get past email security gateways, with brand impersonation being used in 83 percent of spear-phishing attacks, while 1 in 3 business email...

Elsevier exposes users’ emails and passwords online
2019-03-20 11:40

The science publisher is blaming a misconfigured server that exposed a constant stream of its users’ credentials.

Court: Embarrassing leaks of internal Facebook emails are fishy
2019-03-19 11:50

The leaks point to a plot, a Calif. court said, ordering pikini app maker Six4Three to hand over its lawyers' chats with the ICO.

“FINAL WARNING” email – have they really hacked your webcam?
2019-03-13 12:01

In the last 24 hours, SophosLabs received 1,700 samples of just one new sextortion campaign. Good news? It's all a pack of lies. Don't reply. Don't engage.

Email list-cleaning site may have leaked up to 2 billion records
2019-03-12 12:10

The number of records exposed online by Verification.io email list-cleaning service may be far higher than originally anticipated.

The Role of AI, Machine Learning in Email Security
2019-03-11 17:03

Adrien Gendre of Vade Secure on Infrastructure ProtectionMachine learning models and artificial intelligence are transforming the way email is secured, says Adrien Gendre of Vade Secure.

Unprotected MongoDB Instance Exposes 800 Million Emails
2019-03-10 16:34

An unprotected MongoDB database was recently found exposing over 800 million records, including email addresses and phone numbers.  Discovered on February 25 by security researcher Bob Diachenko,...

An email marketing company left 809 million records exposed online
2019-03-09 18:36

150GB database included mortgage amounts, info on credit ratings.

That marketing email database that exposed 809 million contact records? Maybe make that two-plus BILLION
2019-03-08 21:45

'This is a gigantic amalgamation of data all in one place' expert tells El Reg An unprotected MongDB database belonging to a marketing tech company exposed up to 809 million email addresses, phone...