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WASHINGTON, D.C., September 18, 2019 — The Retail & Hospitality Information Sharing and Analysis Center (RH-ISAC) today announced its commitment to National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM), held annually in October, by signing up as a Champion and joining a growing global effort to promote the awareness of online safety and privacy. NCSAM is a collaborative…

Valimail has been doing rigorous analysis on the data behind email frauds since the company’s earliest days. And we’ve been publishing research reports based on that deep insight for several years. Valimail’s research program now sets the industry standard for reliable, hype-free data on the state of email fraud, email authentication, and identity-based email attacks….

Social media networks like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn were originally designed to connect people all over the world. Now, it has become an active underworld for threat actors seeking personal and organizational information from users. Social media has become a reconnaissance tool – a tried and true method of collecting data – to hijack…

By Heather Howland, VP of Marketing, Preempt It’s never been more important for retailers to harden their cybersecurity posture— especially given the documented trend of intensified attacks on retailers during the rapidly-approaching holiday season. We’re excited to attend the 2018 Retail Cyber Intelligence Summit in Denver and look forward to learning from and sharing perspective…

Numerous attack campaigns in the past couple of months have demonstrated a common tactic used by cybercriminals and state-sponsored attackers alike―credential harvesting. According to the Verizon 2017 Data Breach Investigation Report, 81% of hacking-related breaches leverage either stolen, default or weak credentials. While credential harvesting is often seen as equivalent to phishing, it uses different…