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Category: Email

  • Sometimes changing the password on your email mailbox isn’t enough

    Sometimes changing the password on your email mailbox isn’t enough Have you ever taken a look at your Microsoft 365 mailbox rules? If not, it might be worth a few minutes of your time. Because newly released research reveals that hackers may already have beaten you to it. Read more in my article on the…

  • Proton Mail Shared User Information with the Police

    Proton Mail Shared User Information with the Police 404 Media has a story about Proton Mail giving subscriber data to the Swiss government, who passed the information to the FBI. It’s metadata—payment information related to a particular account—but still important knowledge. This sort of thing happens, even to privacy-centric companies like Proton Mail. Bruce Schneier…

  • I Am in the Epstein Files

    I Am in the Epstein Files Once. Someone named “Vincenzo lozzo” wrote to Epstein in email, in 2016: “I wouldn’t pay too much attention to this, Schneier has a long tradition of dramatizing and misunderstanding things.” The topic of the email is DDoS attacks, and it is unclear what I am dramatizing and misunderstanding. Rabbi…

  • SpamGPT – AI-powered Attack Tool Used By Hackers For Massive Phishing Attack

    SpamGPT – AI-powered Attack Tool Used By Hackers For Massive Phishing Attack A sophisticated new cybercrime toolkit named SpamGPT is enabling hackers to launch massive and highly effective phishing campaigns by combining artificial intelligence with the capabilities of professional email marketing platforms. Marketed on the dark web as a “spam-as-a-service” platform, SpamGPT automates nearly every…

  • Elastic Salesloft Drift Security Incident – Hackers Accessed Email Account Contains Valid Credentials

    Elastic Salesloft Drift Security Incident – Hackers Accessed Email Account Contains Valid Credentials Elastic has disclosed a security incident stemming from a third-party breach at Salesloft Drift, which resulted in unauthorized access to an internal email account containing valid credentials. While the company’s core Salesforce environment was not impacted, the incident exposed sensitive information contained…