email security
Increase in credential phishing and brute force attacks causing financial and reputational damage
Abnormal Security released a report which examines the escalating adverse impact of socially-engineered and never-seen-before email attacks, and other advanced email …
How to make email safe for business
When it comes to business communication, email is still king. Cybercriminals are aware of this fact, and they’re constantly perfecting their attacks to successfully …
If encryption is so good at protecting data, why do so many businesses succumb to cyberattacks?
Cybercriminals use increasingly complex deception methods, and cybersecurity can be unfamiliar, unintuitive, or inconvenient to operate, recent Mimecast research reveals. No …
57% of reported incidents are caused by insiders
Insider data breaches were the top cause of data and cybersecurity incidents reported in the first quarter of 2021, according to the ICO. 57% of reported incidents were caused …
Gmail increases email security by adding support for BIMI
Organizations who deploy Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance (DMARC) will, from now on, be able to increase Gmail recipients’ trust in the …
Bitcoin cyber attacks surge following rising demand and increasing price of bitcoin
Phishing impersonations and business email compromise (BEC) attacks designed to steal victims’ bitcoin surged by 192% between October 2020 and May 2021, closely following the …
71% of organizations experienced BEC attacks over the past year
Business email compromise (BEC) attacks are one of the most financially damaging cyber crimes and have been on the rise over the past year. This is according to GreatHorn …
What happens after a malicious email reaches employees’ inboxes?
On average, it takes three and half days (83 hours) from the moment a malicious email attack lands in an employees inbox, to when it is discovered by a security team or …
Organizations using Microsoft 365 experience more breaches, with more severe impacts
85% of organizations using Microsoft 365 have suffered email data breaches in the last 12 months, an Egress report reveals. The increased amount of remote work as a result of …
Security awareness training doesn’t solve human risk
Traditional employee risk mitigation efforts such as security awareness training and phishing simulations have a limited impact on improving employees’ real-world …
Email security is a human issue
Research suggests that email is the most common point of entry for malware, providing access in 94% of cases, so it’s unsurprising that phishing is the root cause of 32% of …
Hackers found leveraging three SonicWall zero-day vulnerabilities
Attackers that seem to have “intimate knowledge” of the SonicWall Email Security product have been discovered leveraging three (at the time) zero-day …
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