- Home Is Where The Hack Is: Remote Workforces Present Security Challenges
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, May 27, 2020
Phishing and malware are the biggest threats, and there are many obstacles to securing work-at-home, Cybersecurity Insiders reports. ...
- Cyber Crime Continues To Climb, With Financial Gain The Main Objective
Digital News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, May 19, 2020
A record 157,525 incidents and 108,069 breaches were analyzed from 81 countries covering 16 industries in a report from Verizon Business. Money -- not espionage -- was the main goal ...
- Phishing Campaigns Spoof Government and Groups Worldwide: Study
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, May 15, 2020
The templates mimic the websites of the CDC, IRS and WHO, according to a report by Proofpoint. ...
- Database Prevails Against Spamhaus, But Not Entitled To Removal From Blocklist
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, May 6, 2020
Database USA may be eligible to recover monetary damages from Spamhaus for any lost profits incurred as a result of being on the blocklist. ...
- Twilio SendGrid Partners With Valimail To Bolster Email Domain Security
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Thursday, May 7, 2020
Bad actors are spoofing such groups as the CDC, WHO and NHS during the COVID-19 pandemic, Twilio SendGrid notes. ...
- Workers Can't Define Ransomware And Are Ignoring Security Best Practices: Study
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, May 6, 2020
Boomers are more likely than younger people to know what phishing and ransomware are. But millennials and Gen Z are more hip to smishing and vishing, Proofpoint reports. ...
- Google Blocked 100 Bad Ads Per Second In 2019
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, April 30, 2020
Google released its 2019 transparency report Thursday, outlining its actions to stop fraudulent online activities and protect advertisers, publishers and people searching for information. ...
- Cofense, Anti-Phishing Firm, Lands Additional Funding
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, April 29, 2020
The new investment from BlackRock Privacy Equity Partners will fund R&D and global expansion. And Tom McDonough has joined the Cofense board of directors. ...
- Google: Fast-Food Franchises Become Phishing Lures In COVID-19 Scams
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, April 22, 2020
Phishing lures using American fast-food franchises and COVID-19 messaging are being used to target personal accounts of U.S. government employees. Google's Threat Analysis Group released a report Wednesday detailing the ...
- COVID-19 Spam Jam: Gmail Says It Blocks 100 Million Phishing Emails Per Day
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Friday, April 17, 2020
Some phishing messages impersonate the World Health Organization, and at least one asks for donations in bitcoin. ...
- KnowBe4 Adds Feature To Its Anti-Phishing Platform
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, April 17, 2020
The PhishRIP tool identifies and blocks phishing emails from hitting a consumer's inbox, the company says. ...
- Cofense Names Brandi Moore, Mark Small And Carolyn Merritt To Leadership Roles
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Thursday, April 9, 2020
The team will help position cybersecurity firm for its next stage of growth, Cofense says. ...
- Scammers Are Sending Fake COVID-19 Insurance Offers, Group Warns
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, March 25, 2020
Fraudulent pitches are being made through phishing emails. They offer non-existent products, ranging from pandemic insurance to free vaccines and test kits. ...
- COVID-19 Cyber Cons: Email Scams Are On The Rise
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Monday, March 23, 2020
A firm is offering $4.95 test kits by email, according to the first legal action filed by the U.S. Department of Justice. ...
- IT Vs. The Big Phish: Study Finds Split On Security Risk
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, March 10, 2020
Decision makers are more worried about phishing than practitioners, Ironscales reports. ...
- Will BIMI Really Make Email Marketing Safer?
London Blog, Sean Hargrave - Tuesday, March 10, 2020
Email marketing's equivalent of ads.txt is a welcome move -- but will it really seriously curtail the phishers? ...
- Mailprotector Raises $5 Million In Funding
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Thursday, March 5, 2020
Email security firm Mailprotector will use the funding for product development and expansion. ...
- DMARC Use Grows And Impersonation Spoofing Declines, Study Finds
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, March 4, 2020
The U.S. sends more domain impersonation email than any other country. But the overall figure is declining, Valimail reports. ...
- Trustifi Adds Tool That Encrypts Email Attachments
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Monday, February 24, 2020
An AI-powered feature scans and encrypts sensitive images and PDF files, the company says. ...
- Americans Are Vulnerable To Census Scams: AARP Study
MediaDailyNews, Ray Schultz - Friday, February 21, 2020
Most don't know whether the Census will use email to contact them. The Census relies on postal mail. ...
- Attackers Exploit Coronavirus In Phishing Emails
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, February 14, 2020
The emails deliver new forms of malware, while spreading conspiracy theories about governments withholding a cure, Proofpoint reports. ...
- Phishing Artists Took A Break At Christmas: Report
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Thursday, February 13, 2020
BEC attacks fell during the last two weeks of December, following heated activity prior to the holiday, Agari says. ...
- Trump Leads In Use Of Name By Email Scammers: Report
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Monday, February 10, 2020
Trump's name is most popular among email scam artists, while Bernie Sanders seems to be ranked last for phishing campaigns. ...
- Spamhaus Invasion: Name Of Group Misused In Phishing Email
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Friday, February 7, 2020
Emails claiming to be from an anti-spam group say, 'Urgently Take Action.' Those who click will be fed malware. Can it get any worse? ...
- Recipients Fall For Phishing Emails In Global Test
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, February 4, 2020
TerraNova Security conducted a test last fall called the Gone Phishing Tournament in 76 countries. The result was that 11% of all recipients clicked a phishing link and 2% submitted ...
- New Malware Scam Pretends To Be Greta Thunberg Invite: Report
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Monday, January 20, 2020
The bad actors send emails containing fake invites to a Greta Thunberg demonstration and to Christmas and Halloween parties, according to an article published Monday in Bleeping Computer. ...
- Email Stealth Attacks: New Ways Of Breaching Legacy Systems
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, January 15, 2020
Security providers have failed to block dangerous emails, INKY asserts in a report. ...
- Leaky Apps: Email Addresses, Other Personally Identifiable Information Are Far From Secure
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Monday, January 6, 2020
Online retail apps are the most insecure, followed by brick-and-mortar retail apps, NowSecure reports. ...
- Special Olympics Email Hacked, Phishing Campaign Launched
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, January 3, 2020
The phishing email stated that $1,942.49 was about to be debited from the victim's account, a report states. ...
- Google Halts Chrome Rollout On Android After Bug Deletes Data
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, December 16, 2019
A major bug that deletes user data and resets mobile apps forced Google to stop the rollout of Chrome 79 on Android. ...
