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- FBI Reports Email Account Hijacking Is Still Number One
The FBI’s 2019 Internet Crime Report, came out February 25. Email account hijacking, or Business Email Compromise (BEC) is the top money maker for cyber-criminal groups, earning them an estimated $1.776 BILLION with a B. CEOs of companies are top targets for this exploit, and usually it begin...
- Email Account Hijacking And Invoice Fraud Go Big
There has been a lot in the press about ransomware this year. Crypto-ransomware attacks are becoming more targeted and sophisticated, resulting in bigger extortion amounts and other financial losses to the victims. But last year’s most frequent and expensive cyber-crime is still email account ...
- Email Account Hijacking – A Growing Threat
Email security company Mimecast recently released its Email Security Risk Assessment, and found that email account hijacking is the fastest growing threat vector. Also known as impersonation attacks, email account hijacking allows an attacker to impersonate the person whose account has been compro...
- Email Account Hijacking – Part 4 Prevention and Dectection
Last week we went deep on the subject of just how bad losing control of your email account can be. Today we are wrapping up the four-part series with solutions to help you prevent email account compromise from happening, how to detect if it has already happened to you, and how to recover if that i...
- Email Account Hijacking – Part 3 Extending the Exploit
On Monday and Wednesday we looked at email account hijacking, how it happens, and what can happen after the account is controlled by an attacker. Today we will see how an attacker could use the beachhead they established in your email account to extend their intrusion. They have already proven tha...
- Issues With Your Email Address
by Bob Weiss Email is one of the very first Internet protocols, going all the way back to 1971 and the early ARPANET. Ray Tomlinson is credited as the inventor of networked email; he developed the first system able to send mail between users on different hosts across the ARPANET, using the @ si...
- The Danger of Sub-Domain Hijacking
Here is a frightening twist on your typical domain name spoofing. Attackers have found ways to reuse legitimate sub-domains of well know business entities such as Microsoft and other companies to seed phishing email links with authentic sub-domains. What is a sub-domain? Anyone person or business ...
- Keeping Your Accounts Offline Is Not More Secure
You think you are the clever one because you never use the Internet for online banking, online shopping, or managing accounts like your retirement account, gas and electric utilities, telephone, cell phone, and Internet. Open a Facebook account? Never! You think you are safer from account hija...
- How Email Accounts Are Hijacked
The most devastating exploit that can happen to you is to have your email account hijacked. We have spilled a lot of pixels on this subject (see below). The reason we find this so dangerous is that it is that this is the attack most likely to happen to you. Google recently released a study that ...
- Foiling Email Impersonation
Email account hijacking is a serious, growing problem. It has become the number one way that cyber-criminals make money. What makes it so insidious is the ease with which the hijacker can impersonate the owner of the email account. What this means to you is this – that email you got from y...