Preview the latest global phishing benchmarking results and expert security awareness recommendations from Fortra's Terranova Security 2023 Gone Phishing Tournament.

Is your organisation ready to tackle the new challenge of QR code phishing, also known as quishing? In this TechNewsWorld article, Dr. Steve Jeffery discusses the latest carrier of choice for payloads via email.

Following a multi-layered approach to phishing defense is a good idea, but using what you have close to home is best when it comes to a sensible security posture. In practice, a robust security awareness training program is key to instruct employees on what to look for when trying to spot phishing emails that may have landed in their inboxes.

Through a layered approach utilizing a comprehensive solution as the primary defense, Fortra fills major gaps in email platform security by protecting users from external threats and safeguarding your sensitive data from being leaked both inside and outside your organization.

In this post, we discuss the industries most prone to attack on social media, and the top threat types found on those platforms.

In Q3, credit unions nearly overtook national banks as the top targeted industry on the Dark Web, according to recent data from Fortra’s PhishLabs.

The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office published update guidance on encryption on 3rd March 2016, amidst concerns that there was a general lack of understanding of how and when to use encryption. It is the lack of appropriate technical measures, such as the use of encryption that has led to a significant number of fines issued in the UK since 2010. There is a risk of bigger fines with the...

The motivations for APT attacks are many and varied. Nation-state sponsored, industrial espionage and targeted attacks are primarily designed not to cause disruption, but to steal information.

Whether you are a subscriber to the Inbox Zero mode of email management or prefer to let your unread emails rack up to hundreds or even thousands, there can be little doubt about the sheer volume of email communication.

In July 2019, leading financial organization Capital One received an anonymous e-mail revealing some bad news: “There appears to be some leaked data of yours in someone’s Github.” This leaked data was revealed to be the personal details of about 106 million individuals across the US and Canada, mostly consumers and small business owners that have applied for credit card products, including their...

It is vital that security measures match that of the technology introduced such as AI, 5G, and the Internet of Things.

Traditional Data Loss Prevention (DLP) technology provides protection against the traditional threat of someone trying to send a file to an unauthorized individual, but it required a step change to enable Adaptive Data Loss Prevention with Deep Content Inspection (DCI) to address threats such as ransomware that is delivered embedded in innocuous-looking documents. Clearswift delivered our first...

Cyber-attacks and data breaches are now so widespread that it isn’t a matter of ‘if’ but ‘when’ your organization gets hit. According to the UK Government’s latest Cyber Security Breaches Survey , nearly seven in ten large businesses identified a breach or attack in the past year. When taking into consideration all sizes of businesses in the UK, nearly half had suffered a breach or attack. The...