- Millions Of Crypto Email Addresses Exposed
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Monday, October 25, 2021
But CoinMarketCap denies the leak came from its own services. ...
- Illicit Web, Search Engines, Browsers Become Security Risk
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, October 25, 2021
The visual web indexed by Google, Bing and other search engines is well known to all, but an unregulated web has led to illicit activities that many people do n ...
- Missouri Governor Was Wrong To Accuse Reporter Of Hacking
Publishing Insider, Rob Williams - Thursday, October 21, 2021
It's ridiculous to mischaracterize a reporter as an outlaw hacker for discovering that private information about state employees was readily available in a web page's source code. ...
- Malware Is Sent In Mass Volume Email Attack
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, October 20, 2021
A high-volume malware email attack is hitting a range of industries, particularly in Germany and Austria. The campaign is tied to TA505, a financially motivated threat group, security firm Proofpoi ...
- Scanning Phones For Illegal Images 'Tears At The Heart Of Privacy,' Experts Warn
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, October 15, 2021
Prominent security experts issue a new warning against any attempt to combat crime by engaging in "bulk surveillance" of iPhones and other devices. ...
- Consumers Abandon Brands After Frustration Over Identity Authentication, CMO Survey Finds
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, October 12, 2021
Consumers prefer to do business with companies that make authentication safe and simple and safe, according to 81% of consumers surveyed by CMO Council and Business Performance Innovation Network. Th ...
- Email Industries Rolls Out Its Email Verification Tool
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Monday, October 11, 2021
Alfred Knows, previously in beta, is now available to small and medium-sized businesses. ...
- Cloudflare Defeats Copyright Claims Over 'Rogue' Ecommerce Sites
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, October 7, 2021
A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit accusing the company of contributing to copyright infringement by failing to remove retail sites that sold counterfeits. ...
- Fancy Bear Phishing Effort Targets Gmail Users: Report
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, October 8, 2021
The phishing emails were blocked and marked as spam. But Google is warning users anyway. ...
- Gmail Down For Some Users Amidst Massive Facebook Outage
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Monday, October 4, 2021
"Google, Facebook, this is the end my friends, digital world war has begun," one Gmail user wrote. Complaints peaked around 5 p.m. EST Monday on downdetector. ...
- Ransomware Is Dominated By Three 'Families:' Report
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Thursday, September 30, 2021
Three ransomware-as-a-service actors make up 64 percent of all threats detected, according to Bitdefender. They are WannaCryptor, Stop/DJVU and Phobos. ...
- Study: Half Of Forbes 2000 Brands Fail To Use DMARC
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, September 28, 2021
The IT software and services sector is most likely to employ DMARC (domain-based message authentication and conformance) record, the standard email authentication method. ...
- How BIMI Will Build Trust And Security For Email Marketers
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Monday, September 27, 2021
BIMI Brand Indicators for Message Identification)provides a framework for email security and brand messaging. Here is an analysis of what BIMI can do for email
marketers. ...
- Busting Google's Bulwark: Bad Actors Use Firm's Free Resources To Send Spam, Spamhaus Says
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Friday, September 24, 2021
Spammers have been able to send malicious email through Google's shared outbound servers. ...
- New Apple Feature Can Leak IP Addresses: Report
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, September 24, 2021
Apple reportedly has patched iCloud Private Relay, but not for iOS 15, The Hacker News says. ...
- Epik Confirms Data Hack, Email Addresses Exposed
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Monday, September 20, 2021
Epik, a domain registrar and web services provider that reportedly services conservative groups, has suffered a data leak affecting over 15 million email addresses. The hack reportedly was perpetrated by hacktivi ...
- Study Shows Gap In Malware Understanding By Employees
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, September 17, 2021
Less than half of U.S. employees believe their device will be infected if they click on a suspicious link, KnowBe4 reports. ...
- Health Apps Must Notify Consumers About Unauthorized Disclosures, FTC Says
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, September 15, 2021
Apps "are routinely caught playing fast and loose with user data, leaving users' sensitive health information susceptible to hacks and breaches," FTC Chair Lina Khan stated Wednesday. ...
- Marketing Tech Firm TTEC Suffers Cyber Outage
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Thursday, September 16, 2021
TTEC, whose clients include Bank of America, Verizon and Best Buy, suffered a cyber security incident, but apparently has dealt with the problem. ...
- House Democrats Propose $1 Billion For FTC To Create New Privacy Division
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, September 10, 2021
House Democrats are floating a proposal to allocate $1 billion to the Federal Trade Commission, to enable the agency to beef up its privacy enforcement. ...
- Apple Closes Flaws That Could Open Devices To Pegasus Spyware: Reports
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Monday, September 13, 2021
The company recommends its security updates for all users. The NSO Group is reportedly behind the spyware. ...
- Corporate Honchos Fear SolarWinds Cyber Probe Could Lead To Unwanted Revelations
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Friday, September 10, 2021
Corporate executives are sweating about a SEC investigation into the SolarWinds Russian hacking operation. They fear the probe might unveil cyber breaches unrelated to SolarWinds that they never intended ...
- Howard University Hit By Cyber Attack
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, September 7, 2021
Howard University was hit by a ransomware attack that caused the school to take “many of our university systems offline.” In addition, Howard cancelled classes for Tuesday. ...
- Apple Delays iPhone Scanning Plan
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, September 3, 2021
Faced with a backlash by civil rights groups and privacy advocates, Apple has decided to delay a controversial plan to scan users' devices for child sex-abuse images. ...
- Fraud Against Retailers Booms With Shift To Digital, Study Shows
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, September 7, 2021
Companies face a 140% increase in online attacks, and greater costs for every incident, LexisNexis Risk Solutions reports. ...
- DMARC Could Help Fight Ransomware
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Friday, September 3, 2021
A new use has been found for DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance). The email security standard may also help prevent ransomware attacks.
Here’s how. ...
- Gmail, Outlook Users Hit With New Email Scam
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, August 31, 2021
Email scammers are using a new trick to victimize users of Gmail, Outlook and other platforms. They are sending emails that appear to be from brands like Amazon or Paypa ...
- Gimme BIMI: How To Use The New Branding And Security Tool
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Monday, August 30, 2021
Gmail, Yahoo Mail and Fastmail have all signed on to BIMI. Validity explains what all the buzz is about. ...
- Illusion Of Living In A Virtual World
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, August 27, 2021
Apple, Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft top execs were among the business leaders who met with the Biden administration on Wednesday to pledge billions on cybersecurity, and discuss how t ...
- T-Mobile Sued Over Theft Of Sensitive Data
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, August 20, 2021
"T-Mobile knew its systems were vulnerable to attack. Yet it failed to implement and maintain reasonable security procedures and practices appropriate to the nature of the information," three consumers alle ...
