by ITLogixAdmin | Mar 3, 2020 | Email Security, Office 365, privacy
Fraudsters steal billions of dollars each year by combining sophisticated email hacking with old-fashioned wire transfers Rachel Louise Ensign wrote a great story for the WSJ about CEO Fraud, also known by the FBI as Business Email Compromise. “In 2018, Frank...
by Andrew Birch | Jan 5, 2020 | Cloud Email, Email Security, Office 365, Security
Attackers are always using new tactics to stay ahead of defenders, and Microsoft’s Office 365 Threat Research Team describes three noteworthy phishing techniques they’ve observed in 2019. The first was the use of hijacked search results to redirect users to malicious...
by ITLogixAdmin | Dec 3, 2019 | Email Security, privacy, Security
Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) delivered thousands of alerts of government-backed attempts to spear phish Gmail users over just a three-month period earlier this year, they reported. TAG director Shane Huntley revealed that from July to September 2019 his...
by ITLogixAdmin | Sep 17, 2019 | Email, Email Security, Security
FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) says that Business Email Compromise (BEC) scams —aka CEO Fraud—are continuing to grow every year, with a 100% increase in the identified global exposed losses between May 2018 and July 2019. Also, between June 2016 and...
by ITLogixAdmin | May 28, 2019 | Email Security, Ransomware
Brian Krebs just posted the following alert: “Some of the most convincing email phishing and malware attacks come disguised as nastygrams from a law firm. Such scams typically notify the recipient that he/she is being sued, and instruct them to review the...
by ITLogixAdmin | Aug 21, 2018 | Archiving, Backup, Cloud Email, eDiscovery, Email, Email Security, Office 365, Uncategorized
In speaking with business owners in the Charlotte market about their network security and backup and disaster recovery planning, the topics often come up that they have their email hosted in the cloud. My response is “Wonderful, but who is backing that data...
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