Security News

GreatHorn Expands Email Security Platform
2018-11-15 14:47

Waltham, MA-based GreatHorn has expanded its machine-learning phishing protection system into a complete email security platform. "This major new expansion of the Company's flagship solution," it...

Emotet Campaign Ramps Up with Mass Email Harvesting Module
2018-11-12 22:07

The new variant can exfiltrate emails for a period going back 180 days, en masse.

How email fraud tactics continue to find new life
2018-11-09 06:15

Almost as soon as email became widely used, crooks and scammers began using it as a means to defraud people. In today’s world, malicious fake emails continue to be a huge problem for individuals...

Spammer scum hack 100,000 home routers via UPnP vulns to craft email-flinging botnet
2018-11-08 07:58

Look out for traffic to and from these IP addresses and ports Once again, a hundred thousand or more home routers have been press-ganged into a spam-spewing botnet, this time via Universal Plug...

Business Email Compromise: Must-Have Defenses
2018-11-02 19:18

David Stubley of 7 Elements Shares BEC Incident Response Lessons LearnedWant to better block business email compromise - CEO fraud - attacks outright, as well as be able to spot and respond more...

Most impersonated brands in email attacks? Microsoft and Amazon
2018-11-02 06:45

Nearly two-thirds of all advanced email attacks used emails impersonating Microsoft or Amazon, according to new research by Agari. Microsoft was impersonated in 36 percent of all (brand) display...

What attackers want whey they hack email accounts
2018-10-25 13:31

Mark Risher, Google's director of product management for identity and account security, explains what hackers are looking and how Google is ramping up account security.

What attackers want when they hack email accounts
2018-10-25 13:31

Mark Risher, Google's director of product management for identity and account security, explains what hackers are looking and how Google is ramping up account security.

FireEye demonstrates email threat detection with no-cost cloud email evaluations
2018-10-23 02:00

FireEye launched the new capability that allows organizations to evaluate email threat detection efficacy with a no-charge evaluation service powered by FireEye Email Security. “Email continues to...

Z1 Global TrustPoint simplifies the exchange of email certificates
2018-10-23 00:00

With the latest version of the online certificate portal Z1 Global TrustPoint, Zertificon Solutions has simplified and accelerated the publication of email certificates. This will make...