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In the past week, there have been many reports about criminal activity exploiting people’s fears of the coronavirus, aka...

For marketers, email deliverability and open rates are more than core metrics. They are critical components of brand ide...

As we wrote in our previous post on the core problem with email security, the cost of business email compromise (BEC) mo...

Email reaches half the world’s population, and is the leading attack vector for cyber crime. Everyone from petty crimina...

Despite its near-ubiquity, email is under attack. Email’s core protocols make no provision for authenticating the identi...

There are a lot of initiatives that fall on your team’s shoulders, so I’m sure there’s the question in the back of your ...

Today Valimail released the results of a survey we conducted to test Americans’ ability to distinguish fake campaign ema...

A zero-day vulnerability in the way Office 365 scans incoming emails can let malicious content get through to users’ inb...

IBM X-Force Incident Response and Intelligence Services (IRIS) recently shared details about a phishing campaign that co...

In the beginning, the Internet wizards created email. And it was good: Email’s relatively simple protocols let anyone co...

Trend Micro has found evidence that a Russian hacking group is attempting to break into the U.S. Senate’s email systems,...

2017 was a good year for phish — if you were a phisher, that is. For the rest of us? Not so hot. Coming on the heels of ...

Today, we saw a phish posted by Lance Spitzner, a board member of the National Cyber Security Alliance. This phishing e...

Santander Bank has been spending the past month driving a white and red van around the U.K., handing out free fish and c...

North Korean hackers have been targeting U.S. electric companies via spear-phishing attacks, as NBC’s Andrea Mitchell an...

A group of U.S. banks are starting to offer a service called Zelle that lets you send money to your friends using their ...

Ninety percent of security breaches start with a phishing email. The most effective type of phish — and the hardest to d...

It just keeps happening. A prankster who over the past few months tricked the heads of several major banks into thinking...

Related posts: What is email authentication? What is SPF? What is DKIM? The five key standards of email authentication ...

We’re proud to announce that Valimail CTO and co-founder Peter Goldstein has been appointed as a technical committ...

Five top bank executives have fallen victim to an email prankster in the past month. The CEOs of Goldman Sachs, Citigrou...

Newly published documents from the NSA state that Russian military intelligence targeted U.S. election officials with sp...

It’s remarkably easy to trick people by sending them phish emails, even at the highest levels, as a Gizmodo story this w...

Related posts: What is email authentication? What is DMARC? What is DKIM? The five key standards of email authenticatio...

MIT’s Kresge Auditorium, site of the MITSloan CIO Symposium. Photo credit: Gunnar Klack/Flickr We’re happy to announce t...

According to the Anti-Phishing Working Group’s Q3 2016 report (.pdf), there are over 100,000 unique phishing sites activ...

There has been a lot of coverage in the media recently about spear phishing and the ‘CEO to CFO’ scam, and for good reas...

Spear phishing has gotten a lot more sophisticated since this photo was taken. Photo credit: Gerry Lauzon/Flickr I work ...

Tax forms! Photo credit: Manchester Library/Flickr via photopin.com With tax season just ramping up for many companies, ...

Harvard Kennedy School’s Littauer Building. Photo credit: KAKM on en.wikipedia A Russian phishing attack used a fake Har...

Facepalm. Photo credit: mrhong42/Flickr The U.S. Presidential Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity recently de...

Valimail CEO and cofounder Alexander García-Tobar recently spoke on the Wharton Business School talk show “Bay Area Vent...

Hello…Elvis? Photo credit: Gunnshots Email impersonation scams, also known as business email compromise (BEC) or p...

RSA reports a meteoric rise in phishing.RSA’s Q2 2016 Threat Report tells a strong story of phishing on the increase. So...

Every company hits an inflection point — a point at which it’s no longer “if” there’s a market but “how fast” the compan...

The bears may have been at it again. Photo credit Marcin Wichary In this season of beleaguered IT security for American ...

It’s been all too common a story this year. A certain government organization learns that phishing emails spoofing its i...

Photo credit: Tim Franklin Photography All too often, companies respond to the threat of phishing attacks by punishing t...

In the just-released 2016 Black Hat Attendee Survey, phishing far-and-away topped the list for the type of attack that s...

Don’t miss ValiMail in the news. Image credit: Jon S/Flickr It has been a big news week for ValiMail. In addition to our...

Training won’t get there on its own. Image: US Embassy/Flickr A recent IT World Canada article discusses a presentation ...

Don’t let phishing erode your customer’s trust. Image: Flickr/ Lars Plougmann Email is the top communication channel for...

Image via flickr/Dave Newman An FBI announcement released last week claimed that $3.1 Billion has been lost to business ...

Photo credit: Chris Lim/Flickr The Online Trust Alliance (OTA) recently published the 2016 results of its annual Online ...

Old bank vault door. Photo credit: John W. Iwanski/Flickr Phishing scams are costing American businesses big bucks. ...

In the wake of the much-discussed payroll company that fired an employee for falling victim to a spear phishing scam, an...

Something is missing in our security plan here. Photo: Bill Smith/Flickr If you have been following online security thre...

Fish drawing from 1801, via the Biodiversity Heritage Library/Flickr Phishing attacks are on the rise, and they’re getti...

Don’t get caught like this fish. Photo: Lunar Wrasse via photopin. There has been a lot of coverage in the media rece...