Here's a quick checklist of things you should do when your email has been compromised.

Topics: Email Security, Email Management, cybersecurity, phishing

Recent research has shown changes in the effectiveness of various phishing attacks.

Cofense, previously PhishMe, issued a report based on 1,400 clients in 23 industries in more than 50 countries that notes that 7.5 million phishing emails were reported in 2017 alone. But the effectiveness of phishing campaigns has shifted.

In prior research, users were most emotionally motivated to open emails that made them feel a sense of urgency, fear or opportunity. Those three emotional motivators have now been replaced with entertainment, social and reward/recognition.

Topics: phishing, cybersecurity, Cybercrime, Information Security, Email Security, Hacking, Ransomware, Training, Security

Even though email is as ubiquitous at law firms as it is in other industries, few legal professionals pay adequate attention to the importance of effectively managing their emails. In a series of blog posts, we will look at the importance of classifying emails, archiving emails, mailbox management, getting legal professionals to comply with email management policies, data security practices, handling emails for departing attorneys or matter release and email retention and destruction.

Topics: Email Security, Office 365, Document Management, Microsoft, Email Management, DMS, Outlook

A recent ransomware attack against the city of Atlanta took its computers offline for over a week while city officials, along with the FBI, attempted to remedy the situation without paying the hackers $51,000 in Bitcoin. 

Topics: Information Security, Cybercrime, cybersecurity, Ransomware, Email Security

We thank our partners at DocsCorp for sharing this blog post about the new release of cleanDocs 2.1. cleanDocs is a breakthrough technology that removes metadata from Microsoft Office, PDF and ZIP files at sub-second speeds.

Topics: Partner Series, cleanDocs, DocsCorp, Email Management, Email Security, Recipient Checking

Topics: firewall, Penetration Testing, Information Security, 2FA, Email Security, Mobile, Enterprise Mobility Management, Antivirus, Advanced Persistent Threats, Cybercrime, Vulnerability Testing, Hacking, Ransomware, Dual Factor Authentication, Two Factor Authentication, Biometric Authentication, Passwords, cybersecurity, phishing, whaling, Mimecast, Information Governance, Access Control, Network, Email Management, Malware, Training, Security

We have recently been made aware of a sophisticated email phishing campaign targeting law firms and other businesses. 

Topics: Identity Theft, Information Security, Email Security, Cybercrime, Hacking, cybersecurity, Email Management, Alerts, Security, phishing

Has your password been stolen? Are you worried one of your firms' email addresses has been compromised? 

 

There's an easy way to find out. 

Topics: Passwords, 2FA, Two Factor Authentication, Email Management, Email Security

We're very appreciative to our partners at Mimecast for sharing this report from Forrester. We hope it will help you prepare for the GPDR. 

 

Topics: cybersecurity, Email Management, Email Security, GPDR

Topics: Two Factor Authentication, 2FA, Passwords, cybersecurity, firewall, Email Management, Information Security, Email Security

Topics: Email Management, Email Security, Cloud, Fortinet, cybersecurity

At the end of each year, the organizations publishing dictionaries release terms that will be included in their next editions. Terms that would have been nonsensical just years ago become commonplace. One word has been hiding just below the surface of our everyday conversation. It is terrifying in terms of scope and mortifying in terms of transmission. I speak of the word “ransomware.”

Topics: Cybercrime, cybersecurity, Ransomware, SentinelOne, Security, Email Security, Information Security

News this week that a series of cyberattacks and data breaches at North American law firms in 2015 was worse than initially reported (isn't that always the case?) was seemingly timed with the release of a bevy of new articles and information sheets on cybersecurity by our staff.

Topics: Cybercrime, cybersecurity, Cloud, Articles, Security, Email Security, Information Security, IT Tips, Technology Consulting

Our partners at SentinelOne recently reported that 50 percent of organizations have been victim to cyberattacks. Eighty-five percent of those said they had been attacked three or more times.

Topics: 2FA, Cybercrime, cybersecurity, Training, Two Factor Authentication, Information Governance, FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center, Hacking, Secret Service, Email Security

We wanted to inform you of a serious security breach at Yahoo!

 

Earlier today, Yahoo! issued a press release stating that 500 million users' accounts were breached in a 2014 hack of their systems. Account information accessed includes usernames and passwords, security questions and answers and other confidential user information. 

 

Yahoo! said in the press release that: 

 

A recent investigation by Yahoo! Inc. has confirmed that a copy of certain user account information was stolen from the company's network in late 2014 by what it believes is a state-sponsored actor. The account information may have included names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, hashed passwords (the vast majority with bcrypt) and, in some cases, encrypted or unencrypted security questions and answers. The ongoing investigation suggests that stolen information did not include unprotected passwords, payment card data, or bank account information; payment card data and bank account information are not stored in the system that the investigation has found to be affected. Based on the ongoing investigation, Yahoo! believes that information associated with at least 500 million user accounts was stolen and the investigation has found no evidence that the state-sponsored actor is currently in Yahoo's network.

If you were a victim of the attack, we encourage you to review these steps you can take to file a report and help protect yourself from identity theft. 

 

Yahoo! also recommends – as we do, too – that users take advantage of two-factor authentication to provide an extra layer of security to their Yahoo! accounts. 

Yahoo! is not what we would consider a best-of-breed solution for email or other business matters. If you would like to discuss more enterprise-level, law firm standard solutions, please email sales@innovativecomp.com or call 1.800.541.0450, and one of our professional Account Executives will be happy to discuss security and file sharing with you in-depth.

Topics: cybersecurity, Passwords, Security, Hacking, Yahoo, Two Factor Authentication, Dual Factor Authentication, 2FA, Email Security