Unfortunately, online shopping at this time of year needs more security-awareness, not less. It is the peak season for phishers and spammers. Along with many genuine offers, there also lurk phishing scams ready to reel in an unwitting bargain hunter’s bank details
A man-in-the-email attack, commonly known as Business Email Compromise (BEC) or man-in-the-middle attack is an exploit where attackers attempt to gain access to a company's corporate email account by spoofing the identity of an organization, its employees, customers or even partners in order to defraud them of money
From our previous article on what you need to know about phishing attacks, we know that phishing is the fraudulent act of acquiring private and sensitive information, such as credit ...
If you are a movie fan, you have seen scenarios where a character’s close companion is cloned by devious counterparts. The close companion and his/her clone then present themselves before ...
A Game of Thrones analogy describes the purpose of our award-winning Email Security service, Pepea Antispam/antivirus filtering. In case you missed the past 7 years of the HBO series, the Wall is a 482 ...
What are they? Technically speaking, bots are automated programs designed to perform a specific task, like connect you with a customer service agent. There are bad ones, good ones, and ...
Message Labs Africa has been in business for more than 10 years, with a sole vision of providing reliable and cost-effective cloud-based solutions to the growing African. Particularly , now ...
Ransomware is a type of a malware that denies a person ( computer user ) from accessing the computer or certain files by locking the system or by encrypting data ...
Over the years phishing attacks have become more and more common. Typically they’ve been targeted at individuals and smaller companies but there has been a rise in the number of ...
To many who do not realize what a phishing scam is, phishing is the attempt of acquiring sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, credit card/bank details or sometimes acquiring money ...
