If you’ve ever taken phishing awareness training, you’ve most likely been taught to identify domain name spoofing. Domain name spoofing is a phishing tactic where an attacker sends you an email from one domain, the attacker’s domain, that looks almost identical to another domain, a domain you trust. The idea is that if the recipient
The world of technology is abuzz with activity every moment. The fast-paced twenty-first century has no room for stillness. Similar is the case in the world of cybersecurity, where the good and bad actors are always engaged in outsmarting each other. The outcome of this relentless strive is reflected in the news headlines that make
A recent article on the Help Net Security website discussed the results of research into the effectiveness of phishing filters. Phishing filters are used in email security to scan emails for malicious links or attachments. Phishing filter technology is becoming widely adopted and it’s generally thought to be pretty effective at preventing phishing attacks. That’s
As we mentioned in Part 1, when it comes to dealing with ransomware, you basically have three choices: pay it, don’t pay it or avoid it in the first place by deploying anti-phishing software. Naturally, here at Phish Protection we think you should be proactive and use our inexpensive and easy-to-deploy cloud-based phishing protection with
Spear Phishing is a type of phishing attack which generally targets “Whales” or “high-level organizational actors” such as C-suite executives (e.g., CEO, CFO, CIO, etc.) or upper management to steal financial and sensitive or confidential information from unsuspecting top-level management. Spear phishing data breaches account for more than half of the phishing scams worldwide, which
Osterman Research came out with their Office 365 Email Security 2019 Benchmarking Survey and the results are scary for organizations using Office 365 for email. The results are based on 318 in-depth surveys with IT and security managers of enterprises using Office 365 in the United States and the United Kingdom. According to Osterman, the
What’s the greatest threat to democracy today? How about election results that can’t be trusted because the election was manipulated by hackers. Hackers who began their attack with a spear phishing campaign. It’s happened before. It will almost certainly happen again. Manipulating campaigns is now part of the election process. And the number of ways
Like always, much activity has been taking place in cyberspace, and naturally, all souls enthusiastic about the updates must be scavenging through the internet for relevant news reports. The search concludes here as we bring you the most important news headlines from the world of cybersecurity, curated, and presented most originally: Israeli NSO Allegedly
Fishing can be a very profitable enterprise. Many commercial fishing fleets head out to sea each day hoping to land a big catch. Now these same boat owners have to be careful the big catch doesn’t land them. According to an article on the Hot for Security website, “An alert released on Monday cautions that
A plethora of game-changing events has taken place in the digital world in the past few days. The cyber-world being mostly dynamic, it becomes humanly impossible to be abreast with all the critical events. Following is a list of the major headlines from the cyberspace: