In the wake of Equifax and other major breaches, sophisticated fraudsters are finding success as never before. Al Pascual of Javelin Strategy and Research discusses how identity impersonation is manifesting.
Leading the latest edition of the ISMG Security Report: Microsoft's Joram Borenstein highlights his top three areas of focus for 2019. Plus, Randy Vanderhoof of the US Payments Forum on securing card transactions in the coming year.
Despite the proliferation of social networks and messaging apps, email remains the primary means of communication today. Unfortunately, it also remains a persistent threat vector for cybersecurity abuse. We see these evil emails everywhere: at work, at home and in the news, attempting to sell something, or steal...
French film production and distribution company Pathe fired the two senior managers overseeing its Dutch operations after they fell victim to a business email compromise scam and approved $21 million in transfers to fraudsters. Many organizations remain at high risk from such scams.
Want to better block business email compromise - CEO fraud - attacks outright, as well as be able to spot and respond more quickly to any BEC attacks that get through? Incident responder David Stubley details essential defenses all businesses should put in place now.
This session looks at two real-life case studies, with different outcomes from the same initial starting point for two companies. The first led to £140k loss due to malicious invoicing; the second led to data exfiltration and reputational damage (as well as ICO reporting due to GDPR).
Malicious actors use common...
What can organizations do to thwart business email compromise attacks? In an interview, David Stubley, CEO of the consultancy 7 Elements, outlines several key steps. He'll be a featured speaker at Information Security Media Group's Security Summit: London, to be held Sept. 23.
Barriers to getting into the business email compromise - aka CEO fraud - game continue to fall, with security vendor Digital Shadows finding that compromised email accounts for a company's finance department can typically be purchased via the black market for just $150 to $500.
Business email compromises have been at the center of a number of procurement fraud scams, says Allan Stojanovic, a security architect and analyst at the University of Toronto, who describes the fraud and why it's so difficult to thwart.
Criminals operating online continue to target cryptocurrencies, leverage phishing and other social engineering attacks, as well as tweak age-old scams - including Nigerian prince emails - for the modern age. So warns Europol in its latest Internet Organized Crime Threat Assessment.
As you know, impostor email continues to be a challenge for most security professionals. We are going to discuss the tactics and targets of impostor email via this Email Fraud Workshop breakout. Denis Ryan, Sr. Director of Email Fraud at Proofpoint, will discuss:
The email threat landscape;
How to identify potential...
Business email compromise attacks continue to be lucrative for the criminally inclined. With the FBI reporting that reports of such attacks have recently doubled, researchers find that tricking victims into making fraudulent wire transfers remains attackers' top goal.
This white paper discusses the optimal method of enabling security for Office 365 so as to maximize protection against the growing array of security threats that organizations will encounter, while minimizing the total cost of ownership.
Download and read this white paper and you will learn:
How moving to the...
Decision makers evaluating the efficacy of Office 365 to meet their business requirements must be aware of its shortcomings in the areas of data protection, archiving, security, encryption, authentication and eDiscovery.
Download this white paper and learn:
Why the risks of relying solely on Office 365 are...
Advanced attacks such as business email compromise and account takeover-based attacks continue to be a leading way attackers are bypassing Secure Email Gateways (Exchange Online Protection included). Unfortunately, the majority of such attacks target Office 365 organizations.
To stop these attacks a new model...
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