How to Reduce the Risk of Phishing and Ransomware

Feeling lucky? With email security, you never want to leave things to chance. Just 16% of organizations have reported no security incidents related to phishing in th...

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New External Label Underscores Need for Inline Security

If you use Gmail, you may noticed a new feature. On emails coming from outside your organization (or, for personal use, from new senders), there's now a label that i...

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Ransomware in Healthcare Skyrockets: What You Need to Stay Safe

The Irish health care system is under attack—and not because of COVID-19.

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Credit Union Cybersecurity: Take Action to Prevent PII Leaks

According to a report, 74% of banks and insurers have experienced a spike in cybercrime since the start of the pandemic. In particular, there has been a 35% increase...

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Dat's Bad Attack: Hackers Using .dat Files to Bypass SEGs

A .dat file is a generic file that is used in various applications. What's unique about them is that they can only be used by the application that created them. For ...

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The Synonym Attack: Using Similar Words to Get By Scanners

Because of the rise of invoice related phishing emails, many security vendors have resorted to treating emails with the word “invoice” in the subject/body/attachment...

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API's 82 Second Problem

Avanan is an API-based security vendor. However, we're different from the other API's on the market. The difference boils down to this: We prevent. They respond.

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Verizon DBIR 2021: Phishing and Ransomware on the Rise

The 2021 Verizon Data Breach Investigations (DBIR) Report is out and with it, as always, comes some fascinating findings.

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Dropping In: Attackers Leverage Dropbox to Get to Inboxes

Attackers are sharing files with suspicious names to users through Dropbox. Because Dropbox is a reputable service, most email security vendors will allow these file...

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Subscribe Now: A Subscription to Phishing

The software industry is built on subscriptions. You pay for a year, or more, and then when the time comes, you can choose to renew (or not).

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