Today we’re announcing a new tool to tackle email spoofing and phishing. We’ll warn users about insecure configurations and provide an easy-to-use wizard to create required DNS records.
Its name comes from a colloquialism for the directory given to it by American universities students.” (Wikipedia) “Facebook had over 1.44 billion monthly active users as of March 2015.Because of the large volume of data users submit to the service, Facebook has come under scrutiny for ...
As you saw in my example, I targeted a couple of users. One user in particular, Adele Vance, has been known in my demos to be kind of click-happy. Upon logging into Outlook as Adele, I'm presented with the following email. As it's from an "unknown sender" at the moment,...
A new open source toolkit makes it ridiculously simple to set up phishing Web sites and lures. The software was designed to help companies test the phishing awareness of their employees, but as with most security tools, this one could be abused by miscreants to launch malicious attacks. Simple...
Thinking that the email request comes from the CEO, the victim willingly sends the money. SMBs are particularly vulnerable, as they have short lines of communication, with fewer checks and balances, between finance staff and the CEO.” Additional resources The challenges with preventing phishing ...
I spend more time approving email in my daily admin duties now then ever before and that should not be the case with all of the new smart tools. We buy up to ATP and most of the time that does not even stop the links from working. We have an open ticket with support, they t...
common wire fraud - Employment scam - Third party receiver of funds scam, same as in my previous post; Driver Wanted. Again these crooks contacted me in response to an ad I'd posted in the resume/job wanted section of Craigslist. Email sent from: ". Successful applicants are offered the...
spam. Legitimate email makes up a fraction of the total global volume of email. So the lopsided relationship between legitimate email and spam puts the onus on the world’s biggest brands and senders to ensure that their strategy and systems are differentiated from spammers every step of ...
In some cases, the email may purport to come from a C-suite executive and gets a lower-level employee to pay a fraudulent invoice or transfer funds to the “executive.” BECs may also take the form of an email compromise, where the attacker hijacks an employee’s email to get vendors ...
My first tweets about the Trump order caught the eye of my friend Robert Schlesinger, who then invited me to join him and his co-host Jean Card on this political podcast. We had much more fun than you might expect from a chat about Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Posted ...