- Abnormal Security, Email Protection Firm, Raises $50 Million In Series B Funding
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, November 20, 2020
The firm claims business email compromise attacks have risen by 15% between Q2 and Q3. ...
- Facebook Data Breach Settlement Moves Forward
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, November 17, 2020
A federal judge has granted preliminary approval to Facebook's settlement of a class-action lawsuit over a security lapse that enabled hackers to steal 30 million users' information. ...
- Typos In Brand Messages Usually Mean Fraud, Security Firm Warns
Digital News Daily, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, November 17, 2020
Mistakes can reveal attempts at online fraud, counterfeit goods and other types of cyber crime. ...
- COVID-19 Causes Tech Hiring Problems: Study
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Monday, November 16, 2020
And almost all of those polled Fear Employee Access To Customer Data, Internal reports. ...
- Phantom Clicks: Non-Human Intervention Distorts Email Marketing Metrics, Study Finds
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, November 11, 2020
Security click-throughs get registered as clicks -- on a massive scale, says the Messaging Malware Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group. ...
- Zoom Settles With FTC Over Encryption Claims
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, November 9, 2020
Videoconferencing app Zoom, which surged in popularity due to COVID-19, will implement an information security program to settle allegations that it deceived users over its encryption practices, the FTC sa ...
- Marriott Assessed A $23.7 Million Fine For Breach
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, November 3, 2020
Marriott has been hit with a $23.7 million fine for the data breach that affected over 330 million customers. The penalty was confirmed by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office. ...
- BEC Attacks Jump From Q2 To Q3: Study
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, October 30, 2020
Invoice and payment scams dominate, But COVID-19 schemes are on the decline, Abnormal Security reports. ...
- Microsoft Office 365 Targeted In Phishing Scam
Around the Net In Digital, Ray Schultz - Friday, October 23, 2020
Microsoft Office 365 users are potential victims of a phishing campaign that claims to be notifying them of a missed chat from Microsoft Teams. The bad actors behind the sc ...
- Trump, Biden Campaigns Are Wide Open To Spoofing, Study Finds
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Thursday, October 22, 2020
Valimail reports that there is massive vulnerability at every level of the election system, as the FBI reports that Iran and Russia have access to U.S. voter registrations. The stu ...
- Email Addresses May Have Been Exposed In Barnes & Noble Cyber Attack
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Monday, October 19, 2020
The incident closely followed the Barnes & Noble Nook library outage. Financial data was not affected, the company says. ...
- New Tool Can Analyze Google Footprint Based On Gmail Address: Report
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, October 16, 2020
GHunt analyzes a person's name, Google ID, YouTube channel and services like Photos and Maps. ...
- Supreme Court Won't Intervene In Battle Between Cybersecurity Companies
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, October 13, 2020
In a defeat for cybersecurity company Malwarebytes, the Supreme Court left in place a decision allowing rival security company Enigma Software to proceed with claims that it was wrongly flagg ...
- U.S. Is Home To 25% Of World's BEC Cyber Criminals: Report
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, October 13, 2020
Nigeria, at the top of the list, is the base for 50% of email felons, Agari reports. ...
- WPP Appoints Cybersecurity Expert To Its Board
MAD, Steve McClellan - Monday, October 5, 2020
Tom Ilube, founder and CEO of Crossword Cybersecurity Plc, has been named an independent non-executive director of the holding company's board. ...
- Free Tool Helps Consumers Prevent Spread Of Emotet Spam
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Monday, October 5, 2020
Consumers are in danger of having their email address hijacked to send Emotet spam, or malspam. They should check the
haveIbeenEMOTET website for a free tool that can determine if their ema ...
- Legitimate Microsoft Email Addresses Spoofed: Report
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Thursday, October 1, 2020
Hackers stole up to $15 million from April to September by spoofing legitimate Microsoft Email Office 365 email addresses. Senior executives in around 150 companies were impersonated. ...
- Microsoft Outage Resolved, But Questions Remain
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, September 29, 2020
Microsoft says there is no sign the outage was caused by an attack. ...
- New Phishing Emails Claim To Be About GDPR: Report
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Monday, September 28, 2020
The spoofed emails look like automated messages from a company's IT department. ...
- Microsoft Debuts Two New Tech Security Tools
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Thursday, September 24, 2020
Microsoft unveiled two new cloud security solutions at its Ignige 2020 virtual conference. Both were created at the tech giant’s development center in Israel. ...
- Ironscales Names Tristan David Bishop As VP Of Marketing
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Thursday, September 24, 2020
Bishop, who previously served at New Relic, will lead global marketing initiatives. ...
- Twitter Sued Over 'Inadvertent' Use Of Phone Numbers For Advertising
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, September 22, 2020
Twitter has been hit with a lawsuit for allegedly drawing on users' phone numbers to serve them with targeted ads. ...
- Agari Adds Several Tools To Email Security Suite
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, September 30, 2020
The new features are designed to help chief information security officers block phishing attacks. ...
- Email Scam Artists More Active During Pandemic: Study
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Monday, September 21, 2020
Emails linked to COVID-19 have contained infostealers that steal passwords and other credentials, F-Secure reports. ...
- 3 Wireless Giants Offer Their Own Password Manager App
Marketing Daily - Top of the News, P.J. Bednarski - Monday, September 21, 2020
Having the three dominant wireless carriers hawk a product millions use when they purchase something ought to make brand ubiquitous. ...
- Study Shows Few U.S. Consumers Want To Protect Their Email Data
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, September 18, 2020
But the number is even lower in the UK. Gmail is the most cited in searches, NordLocker reports. ...
- Most Firms Suffer Outbound Email Data Breaches: Study
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, September 18, 2020
Breaches occur every 12 working hours, and work-at-home employees are compounding the problem, Egress reports. ...
- Phony Drug Spammers Are Bypassing Spam Filters: Report
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Thursday, September 17, 2020
Bad actors are bypassing spam filters, using a new technique when promoting purported pharmaceutical products. The new technique relies on unconventional representation of URLs to remain
undetected. ...
- Internet Society Urges FCC To Reject Trump's Attempt To Regulate Social Media
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, September 15, 2020
The nonprofit Internet Society is warning that the Trump administration's attempt to tamper with a law protecting web companies poses risks to the security and stability of the internet. ...
- Valimail Tools Now Offered Through Microsoft Azure Marketplace
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, September 16, 2020
Email authentication solutions will be provided via the Microsoft Azure cloud platform, the company says. ...
