by Brad Slavin | Jun 24, 2024 | Announcements
Don’t miss out on the latest cybersecurity scoop of the week! We’ll be covering the $3 million stolen from Kraken, the cyberattack that has affected thousands of US car dealerships, the AMD data leakage, fake Chrome errors installing malware on devices, and the cyberattack on the Toronto District School Board.
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by Brad Slavin | Jun 21, 2024 | Emails Services
Mailchimp is a popular email marketing service that businesses use to create, send, and analyze email campaigns. If you also use Mailchimp, configuring SPF, DKIM, and DMARC will enhance your email deliverability and email security.
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by Brad Slavin | Jun 19, 2024 | Email Security
Flexible and dynamic SPF records are easier to manage and need less frequent updates. Such records are even more significant for organizations with an extensive email ecosystem as they allow scalable SPF configurations.
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by Brad Slavin | Jun 18, 2024 | Announcements
We’re back with cybersecurity’s latest in our latest news piece. This week, there were several cybersecurity threats, including phishing emails that exploit a weakness in Windows Search to deliver malware, impersonation scams by people pretending to be from CISA, a cyberattack that shut down many government services in Cleveland, a new kind of Windows malware called Warmcookie that spreads through fake job postings, and a blood shortage in London hospitals caused by a ransomware attack. Here’s everything about these!
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by Brad Slavin | Jun 14, 2024 | Email Security
No matter what your organization’s size is and how many emails you send in a day, you can be a target of impersonation and phishing attacks. So, ensure all your domains, including the parked ones, are secured with SPF, DKIM, and DMARC. In this guide, we are taking you through the 4 steps to enable DKIM using the Google Admin console.
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by Brad Slavin | Jun 13, 2024 | Email Security
Before you follow these steps, check if your domain’s DNS already has the SPF, DKIM, and DMARC records. Redundancies make all your records invalid, neglecting the responsibility of these email authenticating agents. You can use online SPF, DKIM, and DMARC record lookup tools designed for email security assessment to ascertain this; all you have to do is enter your domain name and the type of record you want it to evaluate for you.
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by Brad Slavin | Jun 12, 2024 | DMARC
DMARC, or Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance, is an email authentication protocol that protects your domains from being misused by cyber attackers and improves email deliverability to ensure that your emails reach their intended recipients instead of landing in their spam folders.
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by Brad Slavin | Jun 11, 2024 | Data Privacy
Computers and the internet have been around for years now, and when something good happens, ill-intended people soon find ways to exploit it to their advantage. This is exactly what happened with computers and the internet, too.
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by Brad Slavin | Jun 10, 2024 | Announcements
Here’s the latest scoop on cybersecurity news around the world with the FBI’s new LockBit decryptor, the new cookie storage update by Google for Chrome users, how Club Penguin users breached a Disney server, the New v3B phishing kit, and the hijacking of Microsoft India’s X account. Let’s dive in!
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by Brad Slavin | Jun 6, 2024 | Spam Filtering
False positives happen when email filters misjudge genuine emails and mark them as spam or malicious. On the other hand, false negatives are illegitimate and spam emails that pass through these filters without getting detected. Both are problematic for legitimate senders and recipients. Because of false positives, important emails don’t land in the recipients’ inboxes and impact communications. Whereas, due to false negatives, recipients end up getting tricked into downloading malware-infected files, sharing sensitive details, transferring money, etc.
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