If You Can’t Trust Your Phishing Protection Company, Who Can You Trust?

Phishing protection is big business. There are many providers out there using advanced technologies to protect companies of all sizes. And these technologies are needed, because as research has shown, phishing protection education alone will not protect your company. Now it has come out that one of the larger email security firms, Cofense (formerly PhishMe), is […]

Easy Office 365 Tenant Migrations

We regularly help businesses migrate from one Office 365 to another Office 365 tenant. A verycommon use case involves the transition between (or within) email providers or splitting out business units or the migration of tenants between organizations. Microsoft warns that a new Office 365 tenant may be inaccessible for as long as 24 hours […]

If Your Email Server Stops Accepting Emails How Long Will it Take You to Find Out?

Servers go down. And when they do it can negatively impact your business, from lost productivity to lost customers. You don’t want that to happen. Monitoring email is not as simple as checking to see if the port responds, you have to validate that the entire mail flow is functioning. So, how do you find […]

The One Big Drawback of Using SaaS Providers and What to do About it

We live in a software-as-a-service (SaaS) world. It’s great being able to pay a monthly fee and have some other companies handle your organization’s services for you. There are all kinds of companies that provide SaaS services. There are companies that take care of customer service (e.g., Zendesk), marketing campaigns (e.g., SendGrid) customer relationship management […]

Stop Making Hackers’ Job Too Easy

It’s a common folklore that the greatest cyber-attacks in history are pulled off by genius hackers using clever hacking techniques to exploit a zero-day vulnerability on some obscure back-room database server. The reality is very different. According to a recent study by security firm Centrify, “74 percent of respondents whose organizations have been breached acknowledge […]

Top Phishing Targets by Industry: 2019 Edition

Phishing attacks are becoming more prevalent across almost all industries worldwide. But some industries are targeted more frequently than others. Email fraud remains one of the most common ways cybercriminals gain unauthorized access to their victims’ IT systems. Now, however, cybercriminals are beginning to expand their attacks to include more sophisticated tactics that rely on […]

Microsoft Office 365: A Phishing Attack Waiting to Happen

There are a lot of benefits to using Microsoft Office 365. It contains business tools with which you’re already familiar. It’s easy to set up and offers anytime, anywhere access. You’ll see many of these features and benefits promoted on the Office 365 website. Won’t you want to see there among the list though is […]

There’s Nothing Sexy About Sextortion

There was a time when hackers and email scammers used spear phishing to trick their victims into sending money. By the time someone figured what had happened, the money was gone forever. But, people are starting to get wise to that tactic. So, what do the hackers do? They evolve…all the way to blackmail. According […]

5 Ways You Protect Your Business From Ransomware

Cybercrime is one of the most prevalent and growing threats that organizations face today. Malware, and particularly ransomware, can cost companies millions of dollars and heavily impact user confidence. When the city of Atlanta found itself victimized by a ransomware attack, it ended up signing eight emergency contracts – and spending a total of $2.6 […]

[News] Small Businesses Face Big Security Risks

Why are small businesses at greater risk for phishing and hacking? It’s not because they make the juiciest targets. It’s because they make the easiest targets. Why is that? Because they don’t always have what it takes to defend themselves. According to an article on SC Magazine, Smaller orgs struggle to get the security resources […]

Why Phishing Is a Bigger Threat Than Ever in 2019

In the world of cybersecurity, it’s a well-known fact that 93% of data breaches trace their original attack vectors back to phishing. In the overwhelming majority of cases, hackers use phishing to get their foot in the door of the network they’re targeting. Phishing is not new, nor are many of the broad strategies that […]

[News] If Cybersecurity Professionals Can Get Phished

Defense Contractors Get Taken in by Business Email Compromise Business email compromise (BEC) is a form of email fraud that typically involves targeting employees with access to company finances and using social engineering to trick them into making money transfers to the bank accounts of the fraudster. According to an article on security website Cyberscoop, […]

DuoCircle Sponsoring Open Certificate Authority Let’s Encrypt for a Second Year

Duocircle, a web-based email security solutions company, has chosen to sponsor Let’s Encrypt for the second year in a row. Let’s Encrypt is a service provided by the non-profit Internet Security Research Group. Let’s Encrypt gives people free digital certificates because they want to create a more secure and privacy-respecting web. San Diego, CA – […]

[News] How Phishing Protection can Lower Your Utility Bill

When Good Websites Turn Bad The whole idea behind phishing awareness training is to keep you off of malicious websites. But what if the web site you want to visit, a known good website, is actually malicious? It’s more likely than you may think. According to the Webroot 2019 Threat Report “A whopping 40 percent […]

Social Engineering Is a Growing Threat

The best cybercriminals tend to be innovative and intelligent. They constantly update their strategies and tactics to account for new developments in the cybersecurity landscape and always manage to find new vulnerabilities to exploit. For small and mid-sized organizations, the cybercriminal threat will never go away completely. As long as there is valuable data to […]

Phishing in the News

If You Think Phishing Is Only Your Employer’s Problem Think Again If you work for a company, you probably think about phishing attacks in a distant sort of way. In other words, phishing may be a problem, but it’s not your problem, really. It’s your employers’. Right? Wrong. According to a recent article on the […]

Amazon Order Confirmation Trojan

Today we received an email to our Freshdesk support tool that that was an Amazon.com confirmation messages that contained download links to an infected Microsoft Word document. In our office message routing configuration, all emails first flow through our Google Apps account to be spam filtered first and then delivered to our help desk software. […]

10 Reasons Why Your Business Needs a Hosted Email Archiving Solution

There are 3.8 billion email accounts worldwide, and 281 billion emails were sent per day in 2018. Chances are, your business has contributed a bit to that number. After a while, the accumulated emails can get unruly, not to mention become problematic as well. To solve those problems, you should consider email archiving. Here are […]

The Latest Phishing Trends Traced to Russia

Russia and its hackers have been popular in the news for the past several years. Whether to allegedly influence foreign elections or steal intellectual property its sphere of influence is worldwide. But first a bit of history. How did we get to this point in time? Countries have always been involved with clandestine activities to […]

Spear Phishing Prevention for Small and Medium Size Businesses

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