Security News

Symantec helps business stop email compromise attacks
2019-02-18 07:30

Symantec, the world’s leading cyber security company, announced Email Fraud Protection, an automated solution that helps organizations block fraudulent emails from reaching enterprises, ensuring...

Business Email Compromises: The Growing Threat in Healthcare
2019-02-15 18:33

Business email compromise attacks are becoming far more common in the healthcare sector, says Rod Piechowski of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, who discusses promising...

ThreatList: Banking Trojans Are Still The Top Big Bad for Email
2019-02-13 20:55

Banking trojans, led by the ever-changing Emotet, dominated the email-borne threat landscape in Q4, according to Proofpoint.

Healthcare email fraud: Attack attempts jump 473% over two years
2019-02-13 06:30

Proofpoint found that healthcare organisations were targeted in 96 email fraud attacks on average in Q4 2018 – a 473 percent jump from Q1 2017. More than half of these organisations (53 percent)...

Impersonation, sender forgery and corporate email spoofing top the charts
2019-02-13 06:00

This Q4 of 2018 was a busy period for phishing scammers. INKY researchers saw a spike in email volume this time of year as people use email to gather their receipts from online shopping, shipping...

Hacker Erases Email Provider's Servers, Backups
2019-02-12 18:56

Email provider VFEmail was hit by a destructive attack, where a hacker who accessed its network was able to erase its servers in the United States, including the backup systems.  read more

Email Provider VFEmail Suffers ‘Catastrophic’ Hack
2019-02-12 13:33

Email provider VFEmail has suffered what the company is calling "catastrophic destruction" at the hands of an as-yet unknown intruder who trashed all of the company's primary and backup data in...

Malicious URLs outnumbered attachments in emails 3 to 1 last year
2019-02-07 17:08

The end of 2018 saw a spike in malicious attachments which businesses need to be wary of, according to a Proofpoint report.

Email authentication use growing steadily in every industry sector
2019-02-04 06:15

U.S. federal government agencies and many major enterprises have made significant strides to thwart the spread of fake emails, a major cybersecurity attack vector. But many organizations remain...