How To Thwart An E-mail Phishing Attempt
E-mail phishing attempts are on the rise thanks to advancements in virus and malware detection. These have slowed down the bad guys’ data mining and money-making attempts. As a result, they're going back to basics.Luckily, e-mail phishing has numerous tell-tale signs.
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Don’t Let a Simple Mistake Haunt You: Keep Your Business Alive with These Email Security Tips
IT shouldn’t be something you’re afraid of; but when cybercriminals start causing trouble, it’s crucial that you take notice.One small mistake could compromise your livelihood, and attackers are pulling out every trick imaginable to scam victims into clicking on…
Automatically Guard Your Inbox
Scattered among the regular emails in your inbox, there are most likely spam emails. Although they may be shrugged off by some as simply annoying, these emails contain viruses that can lead to a number of potentially threatening situations for your company’s network.Therefore, it’s essential that your network has a security solution in…
Facebook will now support GPG encryption, which is a variant of OpenPGP encryption, in all email correspondence with customers. This provides end-to-end encryption for security-conscious individuals. However, this may not be for everyone as it requires some knowledge of the actual implementation of the encryption process, including how to obtain a PGP key. To obtain one, each party…
The subject line of the e-mail referenced "your Amazon Account." The body mentioned my credit card and how it had just been "updated." A quick scan of the rest caused temporary alarm. My credit card? I didn't make any changes to my credit card or my Amazon account. Upon closer inspection, I recognized this e-mail for what it…
It’s clear that anonymity, in one way or another, is going to be a part of our digital future. But the folks over at JustLeak.it have looked to the past for inspiration in this brave weird new world.Leak is a web service that lets you send anonymous emails to people: just put in a recipients’…
Emails are an important part of communication with all private and business partners. We should therefore also be careful in writing emails. This is especially true when you consider that most corporate emails are never really deleted and remain on corporate servers and data-center backups for many years. It therefore makes sense to consider a…
There is a dangerous new virus on the loose, and it's spreading like wildfire.CryptoLocker is classified as a high-risk threat since it is easily contracted, and resolution is difficult. While we have a multi-layered security approach set up for our business clients that will reduce the likelihood of a passive infection, CryptoLocker relies on user…
This past week one of the world’s largest free email providers announced that it has plans to begin recycling email accounts and making old accounts that haven’t been accessed in the past year available for someone else to use.There have been numerous IT security professionals that have said that this is going to cause major…
Many different free email services have come to over the years, AOL, Hotmail, Yahoo, etc. but just recently one of the new guys is now on top. For a number of years Hotmail claimed the prize as most used free email service but this past October they lost their grip on this title.Gmail, Googles free…
While IT departments are always harping on its users to choose better more secure passwords this tends to go out the window when it comes to personal security. In businesses, IT administrators have the ability to enforce password policies that make users choose better passwords. The only problem with restrictions like this is that if…
A team of hacks calling themselves d3dd3 have revealed and posted over 400,000 Yahoo email passwords. At this time the members are unknown and capable of repeating this attack on other personal services such as Hotmail or Gmail. Yahoo has made and apology but has yet to comment on the situation. You can go to…