MailGuard Blog

This week marks Identity Theft Awareness Week, a public awareness campaign by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) dedicated to mitigating the impact of identity theft. The week comprises a series of events organized by the FTC and its partners that focus on reducing the risk of identity theft and on concrete steps to recover if identity theft occurs.

While challenging, 2020 drove a long-overdue review of our approach to cybersecurity for many, especially with the explosion of COVID-19 themed cybercrime targeting remote workforces.

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated digital transformation among many businesses, but also simultaneously exposed their cyber vulnerabilities and levels of unpreparedness against insidious, targeted cyber threats. 

Among other things, 2020 reminded us how fundamental cybersecurity is to business continuity.

Earlier this year, I wrote about the need for Australian businesses to step up their efforts in defending themselves from Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks.

One of the biggest challenges in cybersecurity is keeping up with the new attacks that criminals are creating.

In a year gutted by a worldwide pandemic, the 2020 year-end holiday and shopping season will be unlike any other.

Neil Stephenson imagined a meta-verse in his 1992 novel, Snow Crash. A vision of an interactive computer-generated reality or virtual world. A fully immersive persistent experience that we are all plugged into. Maybe we’re not there yet, but we are far closer today than we were pre-pandemic, and it’s a scary peak into the future power that cyber villains may wield.

It’s October again, an important month on the cybersecurity calendar as the world marks Cybersecurity Awareness Month (CSAM).

“Service NSW confirms 180,000 customers' personal details exposed in cyber security breach” 
“A cyber-crime is reported every ten minutes in Australia” 
“NAB flags cyber-attacks during the pandemic have intensified” 

Suzanne Collins, author of the famous trilogy, The Hunger Games, once wrote: “For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.”  

Earlier this week, MailGuard detected a phishing invoice email scam sent via a single compromised sender.

Earlier this week, MailGuard detected a phishing email scam spoofing Suncorp.

Earlier this week, MailGuard detected a phishing email scam spoofing NAB.

Earlier this week, MailGuard detected a phishing email scam spoofing Zenith Bank.