Seattle Times
Starbucks has a new feature for Microsoft Outlook that allows users schedule meetings at Starbucks stores and send Starbucks gift cards via email. The Starbucks for Outlook add-on is available in the Office Store for Outlook.com and Office 365 users with Outlook 2013 or Outlook 2016. The user can click the "Meet at Starbucks" button from within their inbox to create the appointment and add a specific location as well as gift card to the invite.
Hack Read
Scammers are targeting PayPal with a new email scam that claims to come from the Government of Ireland. The email claims that the recipient's account will be limited if they don't take action by clicking on a malicious link.
AOL News
U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch has promised to investigate charges against Hillary Clinton in an impartial manner. In an interview with Fox News Lynch said that she did not have a conflict of interest. "The investigation into the State Department email matter is going to be handled like any other matter. We've got career agents and lawyers looking at that," she said in the interview. "They will follow the facts and follow the evidence wherever it leads and come to a conclusion."
Vanity Fair
Presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump turned up the urgency in a fundraising email he sent this weekend. "Right now we're facing an emergency goal of $100,000 to help get our ads on the air," read the email. "We need your contribution by 11:59 P.M. Tonight." The email was sent after Clinton campaigns promised that if Trump raised money, he'd go after her with attack ads on her email scandal, among other things.
The Wall Street Journal
Fake business email scams, otherwise known as CEO spam attacks, have grown 1,300 percent since January 2015, according to the FBI's Crime Complaint Center. The report revealed that as of last month there were 14,032 victims of the scam in the U.S. alone costing more than $960 million. Spammers often impersonate real executives at a company, tricking employees into wiring money into fraudulent accounts.
IT Pro Portal
Electronics giant Acer has experienced a massive data breach through its e-commerce site. The company has been emailing customers, letting them know about the breach, which took place from April 28-May 12. Hackers could have accessed the names, addresses, credit card numbers of customers during the exposure.
Lexology
The average cost to resolve a data breach want up 7 percent last year, as compared to 2013, according to a new study from the Ponemon Institute. The process costs an average of $7.01 million. Each stolen record costs companies about $221, up from $217 in 2013.
Breitbart
Some 60 percent of U.S. voters have heard a lot about Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while Secretary of State, according to a new poll from CBS. The research revealed that 29 percent of those surveyed have paid some attention to the controversy. Overall, 41 percent of voters think that that Clinton broke the law, 25 percent think she did something wrong but not illegal and another 25 percent believe she did nothing wrong.
BBC
The “Spam King,” Sanford Wallace, has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison, BBC News reports. Wallace -- who sent more than 27 million spam emails to Facebook users -- pleaded guilty to federal charges including fraud and criminal contempt in connection with using electronic mail, last year.
Computerworld
U.S. companies and individuals lost $960 million to email scams over the last three years, according to a new report from the FBI. The research also revealed that $3.1 billion was stolen globally during the same time frame. There were 22,143 victims of the scam.