Valimail Wins Again!

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The Business Intelligence Group today announced that Valimail has won the 2022 Fortress Cyber Security Awards in the data protection category.

Let’s talk DMARC: A Conversation with Microsoft and Itron

Let's Talk DMARC with Microsoft and Itron

Did you miss the Valimail LinkedIn Live on March 4? You can still catch the replay of this episode of our “Let’s Talk DMARC” series and get in touch with our speakers: Doug Dominey from Itron, Jonah Levine from Microsoft and our own PJ Singh.

How Long Do DNS Updates Take?

How long do DNS updates take?

How long do DNS updates take? You almost always see a disclaimer saying it could take 24-48 hours for your change to fully take effect. Is that really true?

Is that email real or fake? Survey shows most can’t tell the difference

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Lots of pundits have been talking about the “death of email,” but let’s get real. Email keeps growing, and we all keep using it. It is an unmatched, critical communications tool for business on all levels: within companies, between companies, and between companies and their customers. We are using it in different ways alongside other systems, but […]

U.S. senators remain vulnerable to email fraud

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Trend Micro has found evidence that a Russian hacking group is attempting to break into the U.S. Senate’s email systems, Newsweek reported last week. Here’s the thing: Hackers don’t even need to hack into the Senate in order to spread confusion and doubt. They can craft emails that look exactly like Senate emails, right down […]

5 takeaways from an Amazon phish

Example of a phishing email from Amazon.

Today, we saw a phish posted by Lance Spitzner, a board member of the National Cyber Security Alliance. This phishing email was interesting, as Lance noted, because there was no attachment and it contained no malicious links. It looked like a perfectly legitimate email from Amazon, and every domain used in the message body and […]

Banks want to help you send money. So do phishers

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A group of U.S. banks are starting to offer a service called Zelle that lets you send money to your friends using their email address or mobile number, easily, fast and free. Consumers can use Zelle send money from within their banks’ apps, and last week, Zelle launched its own app. It’s “the new, easy way […]

Why it’s so easy to fool White House officials with fake emails

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It just keeps happening. A prankster who over the past few months tricked the heads of several major banks into thinking that they were having email conversations with their colleagues has struck again, this time targeting members of the Trump administration. Former communications director Anthony Scaramucci fell for the trick, just days before the end of his short-lived […]

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 be getting worse. For a sampler, just check out security expert Brian Krebs’ many stories of executives being duped by fake emails. […]

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