Email news stories - Page 2

 A new study has revealed 40% of all corporate email breaches occurred on websites used for personal purposes.

In many organisations, business managers are looking for ways to minimise the use of email or make it more efficient so that employees can focus more on deep work and creative tasks instead of on managing their emails.

The act of hitting ‘reply all’ on an email sent to a large list of staff can set off a chain of seemingly endless threads, and can be a huge disruption to productivity. Here's how Microsoft is tackling the problem.

MailGuard has highlighted dangerous email scams following its interception of a large run of extortion phishing emails that demand a ransom payment in bitcoin.

Significantly, spam messages account for more than half of 295 billion in 2019, making 55% of global email traffic in this year, the company states.

Email attacks are having a major impact on businesses, with ever-evolving security concerns proving a challenge for IT security professionals.

"One of the most striking aspects of this emerging attack is the scale of potential victims that the attackers target."

Customers can now send emails, manage ad campaigns, and analyse marketing efforts as part of HubSpot’s free centralised platform.

"When people are working from an outdated version of a document, they can waste time, make errors, and potentially risk the success of the project they’re working on."

Barracuda Networks found that 30% of respondents had fallen victim to a ransomware attack, with almost three quarters revealing the attacks had originated from email.

Software tools updated to empower marketers in an increasingly competitive environment.

After being introduced as part of Google’s G Suite back in 2004, Gmail has now progressed to become one of the most dominant email platforms on the market.

The cloud-focused distributor has forged a distribution agreement with SMX, a provider of an email management, security and archiving solution.

By adding the email API platform SendGrid into its fold, Twilio now includes email as a channel of communication for its customers.

News Corp claims the bungle was due to ‘human error’, demonstrating just how damaging those errors can be – especially at a time when its employees are already facing the prospect of losing their jobs.

There’s no doubt email is the number one vector used to initiate attacks on organisations, and of those email attacks, phishing is king.

Vodafone NZ's email service is closing for good at the end of this month and the telco is urging its customers to set up an auto-forwarding service.

Email-based cyber attacks are of major concern to Singapore IT professionals, even despite increasing technology investments.

Proofpoint has released the findings from its massive Quarterly Threat Report – some of which are astonishing.

South Korean email security provider Kiwontech will expand sales of its AI email security platform to Japan in partnership with Taiyo Tsushin Kogyo.

For customers who are keen to still receive the emails sent to their old account, Vodafone will offer a free auto forwarding service.

From the mouths of the hackers themselves, organisations’ privileged accounts are the most attractive targets for gaining access to critical data.

A newly-discovered exploit called ROPEMAKER allows an attacker to remotely change the content of any email post-delivery.

Stay Smart Online has issued a warning to Australians about a spam scare campaign currently hitting inboxes.