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Data breaches are common in the news lately, but a recent study by credential monitoring firm Vericlouds focuses specifically on the credentials of Fortune 500 employees found in account leaks posted online. Using a corpus of 8 billion stolen credentia… Continue reading Study: Alarming Number of Fortune 500 Credentials Found in Data Leaks
Only a third of Fortune 500 companies deploy DMARC, a widely-backed best-practice security measure to defeat spoofing — forged emails sent by hackers — and fewer than one-in-10 switch it on, according to a new survey. The survey, carried out by email security company Agari via an exhaustive search of public Internet records, measured the use of Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance, or DMARC. “It is unconscionable that only eight percent of the Fortune 500, and even fewer [U.S.] government organizations, are protecting the public against email domain spoofing,” said Patrick Peterson, founder and executive chairman, Agari. A similar survey of federal government agencies earlier this month, by the Global Cyber Alliance, found fewer than five percent of federal domains were protected by switched-on DMARC. The Agari survey found adoption rates similarly low among companies in the United Kingdom’s FTSE and Australia’s ASX 100. DMARC is the industry standard measure to prevent hackers from spoofing emails […]
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