An ongoing criminal investigation highlights how classified documents stolen by Russian hackers from former U.K. trade minister Liam Fox may have been used to impact the British 2019 election. Late last year, these trade documents were leaked and disseminated online by a Russian disinformation campaign. The new addition to this story, according to Reuters, is […]
What is Email Archiving?
Email is one of the most important means of global communication. But while we face a constantly growing volume of emails, information sent by email is generally not stored anywhere else, but simply remains in the mailboxes of the users. In addition, companies around the world are facing a growing number of compliance requirements (e.g. […]
The Email is Still Alive and Kicking
“Email, it seems, is dead,” said tech editor John Braydon a couple of years ago and he is not alone with his opinion if you search through the internet. But do statistics verify that statement? In Germany, for example, the percentage of the population using the Internet to send and receive emails rose steadily between […]
Make the Email Archive Available to Staff Working From Home
Like most of you, we at MailStore are also having to adapt to new working conditions due to the Covid-19 situation. For safety reasons, many companies are currently allowing staff to work remotely from home. I, for one, am currently operating from my temporary workspace at home. But to be as productive as I am […]
Breach notification requirements of POPIA: The importance of SIEM
A crucial aspect of the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) is the notification of security compromises—unauthorized exposures of personal data—to the authorities and the data subjects in concern. Notification of data breaches is mandated by several data protection regulations around the world—from the EU (the GDPR) to the United States (the CCPA), Brazil, the […]
Unfolding the Twitter security incident
In case 2020 wasn’t dystopian enough, here’s some more unbelievable news. On July 15, 2020, social media giant Twitter admitted it fell victim to a security breach. The attackers targetted 130 Twitter accounts, including several belonging to high-profile individuals such as elected officials; former president Barack Obama; and business leaders including Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, […]
GitHub is the Latest Target of Social Engineering Phishing Attacks
Using simple alert-style email notices, scammers look to steal credentials to gain access to development code, intellectual property, and project details. While the preponderance of impersonation attacks focus on brands like Office 365, Facebook, and others, it’s only a matter of time until cybercriminals decided going after developers was a good idea. Last month, GitHub […]
Sawfish Spearphishing Attacks Continue, Prompting Password Resets on GitHub and DeepSource
A new wave of attacks on GitHub users via app developer DeepSource has raised concerns over access to user credentials and development code. I’ve written about phishing attacks targeting GitHub users previously. But this month, users of GitHub partner DeepSource were notified of a security incident in which at least one of DeepSource’s employee credentials […]
1 in 3 Employees Rarely or Never Think About Cybersecurity
Eye-opening data around the impact of human error demonstrates how simple user mistakes can compromise your organization’s cybersecurity posture. It’s something we all know – employees that aren’t paying attention to corporate security aren’t helping. But new data from email security vendor Tessian quantifies this notion with some pretty surprising data. In their Psychology of […]
An Old Dog with Some New Tricks
The Emotet botnet is now including stolen attachments in its phishing emails to increase the appearance of authenticity, BleepingComputer reports. The botnet is well-known for targeting the contacts of compromised email accounts with phishing emails that are sent as replies to existing email threads, but the use of legitimate, benign attachments in these emails is […]