Vision benefits provider EyeMed has agreed to pay $600,000 and implement a long list of data security improvements as part of a settlement with the New York attorney general's office following a 2020 email breach that affected 2.1 million individuals, including nearly 99,000 New Yorkers.
Ransomware attacks are no longer an “if” but a “when” they will happen. It’s become business-critical to invest in ransomware preparedness and cyber resilience in order to recover quickly to avoid high costs of downtime. In the high-pressure incident response following a ransomware attack, finding the root...
As ransomware attacks continue to pose a significant threat to enterprises and individuals, "We will keep banging the message that basic cyber hygiene makes a big difference to lots of people," says Andy Bates of the Global Cyber Alliance. He also discusses the alliance's top priorities for 2022.
DMARC, SPF, and DKIM are global anti-domain-spoofing standards, which can significantly cut down on phishing attacks. Implemented correctly they allow you to monitor email traffic, quarantine suspicious emails, and reject unauthorized emails. But less than 30% of organizations are actually using them. And even fewer...
Businesses are constantly being bombarded by malicious attack threat vectors that operate through email inboxes/outboxes. Malevolent entities use a wide variety of ever increasingly sophisticated techniques to lure your employees and customers in order to attack your organization through email, while evading detection...
Secure Email Gateways (SEGs) are highly effective at securing on-premises email environments. However, as email has
moved to the cloud, these legacy dinosaurs have been no match for the virtuosity of nimble bad actors who use emails to continually setting traps for enterprises’ employees, customers and business...
As attackers find increasingly sophisticated ways to steal confidential information, healthcare organizations must be vigilant in deploying the correct preventative security measures to protect that data. Encryption is one such measure, which ensures that, even
if a cybercriminal manages to gain access to email...
In the financial services sector, email correspondence may contain sensitive personal or legal information, and it’s often critical that this information be actioned within a strict deadline. For your brand to succeed, your clients must be able to trust you with the integrity of their confidential data — this...
As the pandemic pushed businesses out of the office and into a hybrid way of working, we’ve come to depend on technologies like email for critical business functions: signing contracts, sharing documents––even just chatting to our team about the game results.
But unfortunately, the more we rely on email, the...
Ransomware attackers commonly bypass traditional email gateways,
targeting people directly to gain access to a company’s systems.
The answer? Replace these porous controls with a people-centric
security strategy, says Matt Cooke of Proofpoint.
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How ransomware attackers...
44% of all cybercrime losses reported to the FBI in 2020 were due to business email compromise. These threats are designed to evade traditional email defenses, including secure email gateways, because they are often text-based and appear to come from trusted senders. As a result, they defraud employees into paying...
44% of all cybercrime losses reported to the FBI in 2020 were due to business email compromise. These threats are designed to evade traditional email defenses, including secure email gateways, because they are often text-based and appear to come from trusted senders. As a result, they defraud employees into paying...
Yes, you know they are coming. And yes, the fraudsters have raised their game. But that doesn't mean you can't stop socially engineered attacks before threat actors can pull off their scams. Mike Britton of Abnormal Security tells you how.
In this exclusive interview with Information Security Media Group, Mike...
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