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If 2016 was a watershed year for cyber security, then 2017 is the year where cyber security crossed the Rubicon. Our list of the biggest cyber attacks of 2017 were varies in scope and scale. Phishing attacks continued to evolve, spam email was resurgent, zero-day attacks were weaponized at a mass scale, and the public’sRead more

A 1 Year Disclosure Gap From Hack In late 2016, an Uber data breach compromised the data of 600,000 drivers in the United States and some personal information(read: not credit cards) of 57 million Uber users around the world. For scale, in late 2016, then CEO Kalanick said Uber had 40 million active users. ItRead more

Recently there has been a resurgence of an old security idea that “plain text email is the only safe email”.  The ASCII Ribbon campaign from 1998 was precisely about this. It shut down in 2013 as it fell on deaf ears. Is it time to bring back this idea and perhaps even turn it into aRead more

It’s Cyber Security Awareness Month! What better reason is needed to take a quick survey of what we are reading to stay up to date with the latest developments and best content in the IT and email security news world. We asked our team what they are reading, besides our blog of course, and putRead more

I was getting a coffee the other day and, as I usually do, I pulled out my phone to use its paypass feature. The barista seemed concerned about it, asking “aren’t you concerned about your account’s safety using that thing?”. I thought about it for a moment and concluded that I wasn’t, but that thisRead more