- HelpSystems Acquires Email Security Firm Agari
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, May 14, 2021
HelpSystems is pursuing a strategy of acquiring adjacent companies, it says. ...
- Most Microsoft 365 Users Hit With Email Data Breaches, Study Claims
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, May 11, 2021
Most IT personnel are frustrated with Microsoft's DLP security protections, an Egress report states. ...
- Deepfakes A Growing Cyberthreat Concern
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, April 8, 2021
Deepfakes have become a weaponized AI tool of concern to marketers and business execs, part of a growing list of automated cyberattacks as people spend more time online. ...
- Cofense Acquires Cyberfish, Will Target 'Legacy' Competitors
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Thursday, April 8, 2021
Cofense hopes to serve companies seeking to consolidate technology vendors, the company says. ...
- Justice Department Warns About Fake Post-Vaccine Survey Scams
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Monday, April 5, 2021
Fraudulent emails and texts are promising prizes to their intended victims. ...
- Cyber Criminals Send 3 Billion Emails A Day
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, March 24, 2021
Phishing artists are now sending a combined 3 billion emails per day. They spoof the sender identity in the “from” field to lure intended victims into opening the emails. &n ...
- DMARC Demarcation: Brands Adopt Security Standard, But Still Don't Enforce It
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Monday, March 22, 2021
Only 14.8% of email domains are fully protected from spoofing and phishing, Valimail reports. ...
- 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. ...
- 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. ...
- 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. ...
- 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. ...
- Apple Tests New Search Ad, Moves To Become Safe Advertising Supplier
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, February 11, 2021
Apple continues to make changes to its services in iOS 14.5 beta -- in what seems like an effort to move away from a dependence on Google. ...
- 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 ...
- 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. ...
- 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. ...
- 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. ...
- Cofense Adds Auto Quarantine To Its Email Security Suite
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Monday, December 21, 2020
Cofense claims it is reducing the time that security analysts must spend identifying email threats. ...
- Ledger Cryptocurrency Wallet Users Hit With Data Leak
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Monday, December 21, 2020
The company acknowledges that over 1 million email addresses were exposed, along with other information. ...
- The Scammer's Toolbox: How Cyber Criminals Pursue Swindles And Phishing With Email
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Friday, December 18, 2020
A study by Barracuda of phishing attacks finds that 71% of all phishing emails contain malicious URLs. ...
- Few Of The Top 100 Retailers Are Protected By DMARC, Study Finds
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Thursday, December 17, 2020
The healthcare field has a high protection rate, and food and beverage retailers have the lowest, Valimail reports. ...
- Consumers Want Brands To Protect Them Against Knockoffs, Fakes, Fraud
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, December 16, 2020
One-quarter of consumers in a recent study bought counterfeit products, 36% saw fake ads or social posts, 41% saw fake websites, and 35% experienced fake social media accounts. ...
- Cloud Computing Makes Security Threats Harder To Detect: Study
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, November 27, 2020
Insider attacks with email are increasing, according to cyber security professionals. Here are the main dangers. ...
- 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 ...
- 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. ...
- 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. ...
- 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. ...
- Cyber Fraud Insurance Claims Are On The Rise: Report
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, September 11, 2020
Ransomware is the most common form of attack, but business email compromise claims have increased by 67%, Coalition reports. ...
- Phishing Artists Use Microsoft Logo and Dotloop Boilerplate, Retarus Says
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, September 2, 2020
The emails contain links to fake real estate contracts, with the object of getting victims to surrender their passwords. ...
- SendGrid Hit With Account Takeovers, Passwords Sold To Spammers: Report
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, August 28, 2020
Twilio is working on requiring two-factor authentication for customer accounts, the company says. ...
