Two recent hacking breaches affecting hundreds of thousands of individuals - one reported by a firm that provides services to health plans and the other by a government contractor - serve as the latest reminders of the risks involving vendors that handle sensitive personal data.
Business email compromise (BEC), also known as email fraud, is one of cybersecurity’s costliest and least understood threats. As BEC schemes have evolved, industry nomenclature has outlived its usefulness. Without a framework to describe and break down BEC attacks—let alone conceptualize them—researching and...
People are leaving their jobs in droves during the "Great Resignation," and the cybersecurity industry is not immune to the trend. Mike Hamilton, the former CISO for the city of Seattle, warns organizations about the opportunities this presents for cybercriminals and outlines how employers can work to retain talent....
A Florida-based gastroenterology practice is in the process of notifying more than 212,500 individuals of a December 2020 breach involving a business email compromise and fraud. What steps can other entities take to prevent falling victim to similar incidents?
While SEGs (Secure Email Gateways) may claim to protect emails from all possible threats, they unwittingly send infected emails to users, just waiting for them to act. Since the invention of email, phishing has evolved continuously, and hackers have been finding
new ways to infiltrate users’ inboxes and trick...
Two healthcare sector entities are in the process of notifying a total of nearly 750,000 individuals of recent hacks compromising patients' protected health information. Separately, regulators have issued HIPAA guidance pertaining to PHI disclosures involving "extreme risk" and firearms.
DMARC, SPF, and DKIM are global anti-domain-spoofing standards, which can significantly cut down on phishing attacks. Implemented correctly they allow you to monitor email traffic, quarantine suspicious emails, and reject unauthorized emails. But less than 30% of organizations are actually using them. And even fewer...
A Kentucky-based medical specialty practice is notifying nearly 107,000 individuals that their information was potentially compromised in a recent email hack. Meanwhile, a Missouri medical center is still dealing with a phone and IT systems outage that started last week.
As cloud email security implementations become more popular, security and risk management professionals are taking an in-depth look at their capabilities. Cloud-based security solutions deployed through APIs instead of a gateway are easier to implement and provide more comprehensive protection.
To find out how to...
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In the financial services sector, email correspondence may contain sensitive personal or legal information, and it’s often critical that this information be actioned within a strict deadline. For your brand to succeed, your clients must be able to trust you with the integrity of their confidential data — this...
Tell people not to click a link, pat each other on the back, and ride off into the sunset. If only security awareness training was that simple.
In this session, Javvad Malik, Lead Security Awareness Advocate for KnowBe4, will explain how to take your security awareness to the next level and prevent it from going...
Don't click phishy links. Everyone knows that. But are your end users prepared to quickly identify today's tricky tactics being used by bad actors? Probably not. Cybercriminals have moved beyond simple bait and switch domains. They're now employing a variety of advanced social engineering techniques to entice your...
As ransomware attacks continue to dominate headlines, Quentyn Taylor, a Canon director of information security, cautions organizations not to forget about "some of the other threats, like business email compromise," which continue to cripple organizations through financial and reputational damage.
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