- White House Is Concerned As Microsoft Email Breach Spreads
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, March 5, 2021
A hack of Microsoft's email server was apparently caused by China-based hackers and is being monitored by the White House even as it spreads to Europe. Microsoft attributes the atta ...
- High Rate Of Password Reuse Leads To Problems
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, March 3, 2021
A security vendor has found almost 1.5 billion breached log-in combos. Part of the problem is that password reuse now stands at 60% across multiple accounts. And the total ...
- Microsoft To Allow Azure Active Directory To Ditch Passwords
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, March 2, 2021
Microsoft will allow users of its Azure Active Directory to ditch passwords in favor of biometrics when securing work accounts, the firm announced Tuesday at its annual conference. Azure Acti ...
- SailPoint Technologies Enhances Identity Platform
Digital News Daily, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, March 2, 2021
Developers can now customize and automate functions to enhance company security, identity security firm SailPoint Technologies says. ...
- Armorblox Snares $30 Million In Series B Financing
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, February 26, 2021
Email security company Armorblox will use the money to build its go-to-market, engineering and data science teams. ...
- Microsoft Email Users Targeted In Phishing Scam
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Thursday, February 25, 2021
Microsoft users have received phishing emails that claim they are from FedEx and DHL Express. The goal is to swipe email account credentials. ...
- SparkPost And Abusix Expand Deliverability Partnership
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Thursday, February 25, 2021
The arrangement with network security provider Abusix includes the use of SparkPost's Reputable Sender's List. ...
- EasyDMARC Names Rob Bowker As North American Sales Director
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Thursday, February 25, 2021
Email security firm EasyDMARC hopes to accelerate its growth in North America. ...
- Data On Kroger Pharmacy Customers Exposed In Hack
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Monday, February 22, 2021
Social security numbers and other personal details of Kroger Pharmacy customers may have been stolen, the company says. But it adds that less than 1% of customers were affected. ...
- Vendor Email Compromise Fraud Is Surging, Study Finds
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, February 19, 2021
Firms face an 82% increase in the likelihood of SolarWinds-style vendor email compromise (VEC) attacks in a given week, Abnormal Security reports. ...
- Notion Outage Caused By Phishing Complaints
Around the Net In Digital, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, February 16, 2021
An outage at workspace startup Notion last Friday was caused by a floor of phishing complaints. Notion’s four million users were plunged into organizational darkness for several
hours. ...
- BEC Attacks The Biggest Risk To Banks: Survey
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, February 16, 2021
Business email compromise (BEC) attacks are the greatest business risk to banks, according to 86% of survey respondents. The second greatest risk is account takeovers. ...
- Yandex Says It Caught Employee Selling Access To Inboxes
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Monday, February 15, 2021
Yandex, a Russian search engine, disclosed that it had caught an employee selling access to user email accounts. The company is now notifying the owners of the 4,887 compromised mailboxes.&nbs ...
- Passe Passwords: Some Firms Are Moving Away From Using Them
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Monday, February 15, 2021
Passwordless technology helps firms improve their security and the user experience, Cybersecurity Insiders reports. ...
- COMB Said To Be The Biggest Data Breach Of All Time
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Friday, February 12, 2021
Billions of email addresses and password combinations have been leaked in the Compilation of All Breaches (COMB), comprising a gargantuan file for hackers. Most internet users have probably been exposed.&nbs ...
- Phishing Was Top Email Threat In 2020: Barracuda
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, February 12, 2021
Email scams were the second most prevalent attacks attempted against organizations. ...
- Why Email Marketers Should Adopt BIMI
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Thursday, February 11, 2021
BIMI is a new standard that can help email marketers avoid being tagged as spammers. Yet not every firm has adopted it. Here’s why they should in 2021. ...
- Older Consumers Are Among The Most Likely To Be Victimized By Malicious Emails
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, February 10, 2021
Older people, Australians and users of both desktops and mobile devices are most likely to be victims of malicious email attacks, Google says. Also at risk are those whose da ...
- Mobile Fraud And Bots Peak During Economic Slowdown: Study
Digital News Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, February 5, 2021
Fraud artists also have greater access to consumer data, LexisNexis Risk Solutions reports. ...
- Breach Report Shows 3.2 Billion Emails And Passwords Were Exposed
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Thursday, February 4, 2021
A new compilation shows that 3.2 billion unique emails and passwords have been exposed in past leaks. The report, titled Compilations of Many Breaches, stands in stark contrast to ...
- SpamCop Suffers Outage After Domain Lapse
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Monday, February 1, 2021
SpamCop, Cisco’s anti-spam service, experienced an outage Sunday when its domain expired. False positives were caused after the domain was mistakenly allowed to lapse. ...
- Consumers Warned: Don't Unsubscribe From Spam Emails
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, January 27, 2021
Illicit spammers have their own way of looking at things: When a consumer clicks “unsubscribe” or “stop,” the spammer takes that to mean “subscribe” and
“Please, go on.” ...
- Agari Enhances Its Email Threat Protection Services
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, January 26, 2021
The new offerings help firms prevent losses from phishing attacks, Agari says. ...
- Construction And Energy Sectors Hit With Phishing Attacks
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Thursday, January 21, 2021
Phishing artists have hacked construction and energy firms, using credentials that were available with a Google search. The emails used an employee or title within the target company in t ...
- Data Breaches Are Becoming More Sophisticated: Report
Digital News Daily, Ray Schultz - Thursday, January 21, 2021
The number of breaches went down, but more records were compromised than ever before, Risk Based Security reports. ...
- The Most-Clicked Phishing Subject Lines: Analysis
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, January 20, 2021
Emails that focus on people working at home grew in Q4 2020, KnowBe4 reports. ...
- The Brands That Phishing Artists Impersonate The Most
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Friday, January 15, 2021
Microsoft is a popular choice among cyber criminals seeking to mimic brands. The second is DHL. Here are the brands most likely to be impersonated by crooks. ...
- Asian Firm Offers Email Phishing Detection Tool
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, January 15, 2021
Even people without specialized IT training can use the AI-driven service, the company claims. ...
- Mimecast Reports Breach Of Microsoft 365 Connector
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, January 13, 2021
Email security firm Mimecast says that a certificate used to securely connect customers to Microsoft 365 has been compromised by a “sophisticated threat actor.” Roughly 10% of Mimecast’s customers u ...
- Email Security Firm Says It Has Closed New Funding Round
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, January 13, 2021
EasyDMARC has received an investment from Dutch firm Crosspring, and plans to use the funding to further develop email security initiatives, says CTO Avag Arakelyan. ...