When working through an issue, it’s always best to have some type of statistical data to base a decision or to build a business case for a potential change. Of course we also need to keep in mind not to the taint the data and mold it into our predetermined or preferred premise. The assertion …
DMARC Compliance, Email Deliverability and IP Reputation – here’s the proof. Read More »
This hilarious comedy skit about Doctor Who being reborn as a woman has caught people – that reads ‘men’, by surprise ! The key message here is to reflect upon our own hidden prejudices that influence our behaviour in personal relationships, business, politics and social environments. For those not familiar with this hit British series …
What personal prejudices are driving your behaviour and decision making ? Read More »
The Wannacry malware and the variants that came shortly thereafter, targeted platforms with known vulnerabilities specifically running operating systems that had been retired many years earlier. Microsoft for example, has a defined lifecycle policy on its products. The first milestone is end of Mainstream Support. Mainstream support mainly refers to free phone and online support, …
There’s an old saying that rings true most of the time and way too often namely “the plumber’s house has the worst plumbing in the street, or relating it back to technology “an online service provider still running on physical non virtualized servers”. The key message here is that for those that should know better …
$100M email fraud and the DON’T of DMARC Compliance Read More »
It was in 1742 that Thomas Gray penned a famous poem about young innocence unknowing or even uninterested in the challenges ahead in adult life. You yourself would be familiar with this poem based on its closing statement “Innocence is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise.” Starting in mid-February of this year, a massive cyber-attack …
Email borne threats have increased exponentially over the last decade. Our dependence on the humble email has fundamentally changed the way we do business. The Radicati Group in their latest Email Statistics Report indicates that there are approximately 3.8 billion email users in 2018 that send close to 282 billion emails per day. From the outset of its …
Well over 2 thousand years ago, Aristotle, a Greek philosopher, defined a concept that we know and use today – that of causality typically known as “cause and effect”. In fact, he proposed that causality has 4 contributing factors or causes, that can identify the reason of anything occurring. Don’t worry – you haven’t landed …
Aristotle and his contribution to preventing email domain spoofing. Read More »
This week, another major secure email gateway provider aka anti virus provider, announced new features to deal with the growing problem of business email compromise (BEC) or email spoofing. Business Email Compromise (BEC), CEO email abuse, spear phishing, whaling, email domain spoofing – these are some of the terms that are used to describe …
Simple Techniques to mitigate Business Email Compromise (BEC) Read More »
Only this past week has news come out that a CEO of a large aircraft parts manufacturer for Airbus has been sacked by the board for losing €50million in a spear phishing / CEO email abuse email. News article is available here. Furthermore, the FBI reported that across a 2 year period, some 18,000 people lost …
Executives / CxO level targeted in CEO Email Abuse scams Read More »
The ubiquity of e-commerce and the rise of the social internet has provided criminals a tremendous financial incentive to compromise user accounts to enable the theft of passwords, bank accounts, credit cards, and more. Illegitimate use of email domains is called spoofing and due to this fundamental flaw within the architecture of email, criminals have …