Software-as-a Service (SaaS) has been around a while now. One of the strongest benefits of SaaS is that it affords businesses the luxury of not having to buy and/or build all of their IT services. And SaaS almost always saves companies money. But what was once a luxury, is rapidly becoming a necessity.
The number of cyberattacks and security breaches increases every year. Year by year, the percentage surges upwards. According to Gemalto, there was a 164 percent increase in cyberattack frequency between 2016 and 2017. Projections between 2017 and 2018 already show a trend towards even greater growth.
It’s one thing to be taken in by a hacker. It’s another thing to be taken in by a bot. Called trickbots, they are a network of bots, or Internet robots, that trick the recipient into divulging some personal information.
Now word comes that the latest trickbot, which is an updated version of an existing trickbot, is being used “to target three of the largest mobile carriers in the United States, namely Verizon Wireless (August 5), T-Mobile (August 12), and Sprint (August 19).” The trickbot in this instance is being used to grab user’s PIN code.
If you haven’t heard, cyberattacks are a big problem. They’re an even bigger problem for small companies. Why is that? Two reasons. First, because there are a lot of them and second, because they aren’t very well prepared.
Small and mid-size businesses (SMB) are the target of cyber-attacks quite often. “According to the Verizon 2019 Data Breach Incident Report (DBIR), 58% of SMBs experienced a cyber incident in 2018.”
Office 365 has successfully moved mountains of email from on-site servers to the cloud. But, does Office 365 really meet the criteria for archiving compliance, e-discovery, and legal holds? Should businesses consider and use a third-party email archiving solutions?
Join us as we explore these questions and their answers.
As a hosting provider, your IP reputation is of paramount importance. This is one of the factors that determines whether your customers’ emails arrive at their inbox or junk folders.
Unfortunately, traditional SMTP providers collect reputation data at the server level. This puts shared hosting and VPS providers in a tight spot.
If you host hundreds of customers on a single server, one bad actor sending spam emails can ruin the reputation of every single other user. This significantly damages the user experience for all your legitimate customers and generates a ton of support tickets, thereby straining your resources considerably.
Mobile phishing is not a new phenomenon. Almost anyone old enough to remember using pre-smartphone mobile devices also remembers getting suspicious texts and calls from early scammers. Often, these scam artists used some variant of the now-campy Nigerian Prince scheme to trick victims.
But times have changed. Today’s mobile phishing attacks are sophisticated, high-tech, and largely automated. Mobile phones have taken on a more important role in users’ lives than ever before, and the world’s hackers have access to more data than the previous generations could dream of. Without mobile phishing protection, users are vulnerable.
Do you ever wonder why Microsoft consistently tops the list of favorite brands to target with phishing scams? Because it’s one of the most widely used brands, AND because apparently it’s security isn’t very good.
Now comes word of a spear phishing scam, targeting a company in the energy sector, “using a savvy trick to get around the company’s Microsoft email security stack.”
You can purchase anything as a service today—even malware. According to ThreatPost, “A phishing campaign that spoofs a PDF attachment to deliver Adwind spyware has been taking aim at national grid utilities infrastructure.”
“Adwind, a.k.a. JRAT or SockRat, is being used in a malware-as-a-service model in this campaign. It offers a full cadre of info-gathering features, including the ability to take screenshots, harvest credentials from Chrome, Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge, record video and audio, take photos, steal files, perform keylogging, read emails and steal VPN certificates.” One stop shopping to create havoc.
It’s everywhere you turn. Advertisements for security awareness training. The last line of defense. The human firewall.
There’s nothing wrong with training your employees to recognize security exploits. We recommend it. But it should be one part of a holistic defense-in-depth approach to security. Why is that? Because the math of having employee awareness training be your only line of defense is frightening. How frightening?