Researchers at Valimail found that only 5% of the largest voting counties in the U.S. are protected against email impersonation and phishing attacks. TechCrunch reports: Researchers at Valimail, which has a commercial stake in the email security space, looked at the largest three electoral districts in each U.S. state, and found only 10 out of 187 domains were protected with DMARC,…
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Hackers Trick Venture Capital Firm Into Sending Them $1 Million
Security researchers at Check Point say the company has uncovered evidence that Chinese hackers
managed to hijack $1 million in seed money during a wire transfer between a Chinese venture capital firm and an Israeli startup — without either side realizing anything was wrong. From a report: The VC firm and the startup, whose names Check Point hasn’t released, reached out to…
New Tracking Prevention in Microsoft’s Edge Will Hit Google the Hardest
Microsoft’s Edge browser is built on the same open source code as Google Chrome. But Ed Bott, writing for ZDNet, noticed something interesting: On January 15, 2020, Microsoft is scheduled to roll out a completely revamped Edge browser to the general public. That browser, which is available for beta testing now on all supported versions of Windows and MacOS, includes a…