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• Phishing attacks increase by over 31% in third quarter

  Cyber security vendor Vade reports that attackers sent more than 203.9 million emails in the third quarter alone, up from 155.3 million in the prior quarter.

• 9 cloud and on-premises email security suites compared

  Email remains the soft underbelly of enterprise security because it is the most tempting target for hackers. They just need one victim to succumb.

• 14 tips to prevent business email compromise

  Criminals fool victims into clicking on malicious links or assisting in financial theft by sending emails that mimic real senders and real companies.

• Outlook woes: I have no email and I must scream

  Outlook, like Windows 10, has been plagued by one update problem after another. Come on Microsoft, can't you do better?

• Email spoofing explained: Who does it and how?

  Forging email has been in the market since the beginning of the internet, but new security kludges are making it a lot harder.

• Trend Micro blocked over 413M email threats in Singapore during 2019

  More than 413 million email threats were blocked by Trend Micro in Singapore during 2019, representing a 19.9 per cent increase from 2018.

• Cisco spotlights Microsoft Office 365 email phishing increase

  It’s no secret that if you have a cloud-based email service, fighting off the barrage of security issues has become a maddening daily routine.

• Barracuda turns to MSPs as email security business grows

  Barracuda Networks has reported increased growth across email security during the first quarter of fiscal 2019, driven by MSP momentum.

• Researchers claim popular encrypted email standards are vulnerable to attack

  ​European researchers have found that the popular PGP and S/MIME email encryption standards are vulnerable to being hacked and they urge users to disable and uninstall them immediately.

• Google gets behind emails that automatically update

  Google is set to demonstrate a software programming system that would enable emails to feature continuously updating information.