The only email authentication solution trusted by both Hooli and Pied Piper
HBO’s Silicon Valley, which just finished its fourth season, tells the story of Pied Piper — an early stage data compression startup — and its rivalry with the tech giant Hooli. Over the course of the…
What is a BEC (Business Email Compromise) Attack?
Business email compromise (BEC) is a type of cyber security attack aimed at extracting valuable assets from an organization via its email. Impersonating the identity of a company employee or trusted party, a fraudster deceives…
How to Stop Fake Emails with Authentication
Learn how to stop fake emails and impersonators with email authentication protocols.
CEO to CFO phishing scams are on the rise. Here’s one we caught in the act
There has been a lot of coverage in the media recently about spear phishing and the ‘CEO to CFO’ scam, and for good reason. Phishing attacks have been distressingly common for some time, and they appear to…
Mailing Lists & Authentication: How They Work with ARC
Learn how Authenticated Received Chain (ARC) fixes the problem between mailing lists and email authentication protocols.
Email Impersonation Knows No Borders
Hello…Elvis? Photo credit: Gunnshots Email impersonation scams, also known as business email compromise (BEC) or phishing attacks, have risen 20 percent in the first nine months of this year, according to the Singapore police. According…
Can DMARC Do for Email What SSL Certificates Did for E-commerce?
Email authentication can help secure our cloud services just like SSL did our servers. Image credit: FutUndBeidl Valimail CEO Alexander García-Tobar explores this question today in InformationWeek’s Dark Reading. The article explains how email’s historic…
Government Guidance for Email Authentication Has Arrived in USA and UK
We recently discussed governmental organizations that send out warnings rather than preventing spear phishing attacks through email authentication.Therefore it’s good to see a pair of prominent governmental organizations giving clear guidance to their constituents about…
One of Europe’s biggest companies just lost $45M in a business email scam
Leoni AG, a billion-dollar (market cap) manufacturer of cables and cable harnesses for car manufacturers, announced last month that it had fallen victim to a business email compromise (BEC) scam. The cost? 40 million Euros, or about $45…
Corporations Understand DMARC Is Critical. So Why Can’t They Get to Enforcement?
Photo credit: Chris Lim/Flickr The Online Trust Alliance (OTA) recently published the 2016 results of its annual Online Trust Audit, an analysis of corporations’ attitudes towards security and their adoption of various security technologies. The OTA audit shows that…
Senior Execs Fired for Spear Phishing Success
In the wake of the much-discussed payroll company that fired an employee for falling victim to a spear phishing scam, an Austrian manufacturer has fired its CEO and financial chief after the company gave away more than $50…
A Better Way to Respond to Phishing Attacks
An employee at payroll service provider Alpha Payroll got fired for falling victim to a phishing scam, as CSO Magazine’s Steve Ragan reported recently. You can read about it at the above link, but the brief…
Introducing Valimail
Not actually a Valimail rocket. Photo credit: NASA From inception, our vision has been to do something unique and audacious: authenticate the world’s email. If we’re successful, the result will be the elimination of phishing attacks,…
DKIM for ESPs: How to Implement DKIM Properly
Learn how ESPS should implement DKIM authentication for maximum protection for senders.