For the last two to three years, stories about real estate hacking and particularly phishing have appeared with increasing frequency in newspaper and blog headlines. Take for example the cybercriminals who stole client contact information from a DC-area real estate company, and then created a “business email compromise” (BEC) scam, which resulted in $1.5 million being stolen in a phishing/wire fraud scheme from a couple about to close on a home.
In June of 2017, the logistics and transport industry experienced a ‘first’ when almost 80 ports and terminals around the globe either came to a standstill or experienced significant delays, including the Port of New York and New Jersey, the Port of Los Angeles, the port of Rotterdam (Europe’s largest), and the port near Mumbai—India’s largest container port.
I’m a technology marketer, and the annual RSA security event is an opportunity for me to understand what my peers and competitors are saying to customers and potential customers. My takeaway this year is that many in the industry appear to be telling customers to shift the burden of protection to the end-user.
Remember the big Target breach in 2013, when 40 million credit and debit cards and as many as 110 million email addresses stolen? It cost Target $292 million (according to their annual report), led to 80 lawsuits which took four years to resolve, and cost the CEO his job.
Cyren recently gathered opinions from the Spiceworks IT community membership about the state of email security. We received almost 80 responses and were surprised at what appears to be a general feeling that the respondents are losing the battle against email threats.
It’s tax season, and in the 21st century that means that not only are government revenue agents awaiting your data and looking to settle accounts, but that cybercriminals are hard at work with a variety of cyber scams aimed at diverting tax refunds and stealing sensitive personal information, such as social security numbers and birthdates.
