The effectiveness of data protection measures and the utility of available patches have worsened in recent years. The Cymulate Cybersecurity Effectiveness Report 2022 highlights that the overall data exfiltration risk score has become poor, with cloud service-related evaluations standing at an average score of 70, while network protocols have a moderate risk score of 43. …
A change is expected in the DMARC policy settings as IETF has introduced a draft that reports replacing the ‘pct’ tag with the ‘t=’ tag to overcome some challenges. Things are not certain yet, as the document is under discussion and consideration. Nonetheless, let’s see what can we expect. What is DMARC? DMARC is an…
The MSP Global conference, held at the Nürburgring in Germany from November 14-16, 2023, was a major event in the Managed Service Provider industry. It featured over 100 speakers, including industry leaders and experts, and attracted more than 2,500 participants from over 75 countries. The event focused on driving digital transformation, offering a mix of…
DMARC reporting and monitoring is the practice of choosing to receive DMARC aggregate and forensic reports. These are detailed reports that include insights on email activities that businesses study to learn about false positives and domain exploitation instances. If evaluated adequately and regularly, you can prevent potential financial and reputational damages caused by phishing attacks…
In November 2022, the Google Workspace team saw a spike in phishing and spoofing emails targeted toward Gmail users. As a result, Google blocked almost 231 billion emails in just two weeks. That’s why experts suggest configuring SPF, DKIM, and DMARC records in Google Workspace, and this guide explains the steps for that. Setting Up…
A bug bounty is a program that allows ethical hackers to find vulnerabilities in a system or software, and they are rewarded for it. Usually, the reward is in the form of money, and sometimes it’s done in exchange for favors. As of 2020, the average bounty payout is the highest in the software industry,…
Cyber crimes have been taking place at an exponentially high rate in the past two decades. In 2022, Canada alone bore a loss of a whopping 2 billion US dollars because of cyber crimes. Cyber security experts have been trying hard to blend conventional as well as modern techniques to prevent threat actors from breaking…
Gmail has covertly introduced some updates based on the RETVec technology, which is short for Resilient & Efficient Text Vectorizer. It’s a next-gen text vectorizer that supports multiple languages and includes adversarial resilience by default. This machine learning-driven algorithm discovers spam techniques, keyword stuffing, insertion of glyphs, smart typos, etc, that threat actors use to…
The healthcare industry has become the center of focus for threat actors since 2022. In the past 12 months, the global healthcare sector has witnessed a whopping 60% increase in the number of cyberattacks. Multiple factors, like critical infrastructure, sensitive data, and IoMT, make this industry a popular target among cybercriminals. Healthcare centers are a…
Learning how to generate and add a DMARC record to DNS helps fortify phishing and spoofing attacks. DMARC is short for Domain-based Message Authentication Reporting and Conformance, a protocol designed to help recipients’ mail servers identify genuine and suspicious emails. To add a dmarc record to DNS, you need to update your DNS settings with…
