Top 5 email security best practices to prevent malware distribution
Image by Thinkstock
Email is a critical enterprise communication tool synonymous with sending important documents quickly and efficiently between employees, managers, HR, finance, sales, legal, customers, supply chain and more. That said, organizations often don’t understand that the file types used every day to share important information – standard files like Word docs, Excel spreadsheets and PDFs – are also the most common attack vectors widely used for the distribution of malware. For cybercriminals, it’s often too easy to target a user with a spoofed email or phishing attack, and trick them into opening an infected attachment that appears to be legitimate.
To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Read more: Top 5 email security best practices to prevent malware distribution
More antivirus and malware news?
- Why facial recognition couldn’t identify Boston bombing suspects
- Hackers target WHO in phishing attack
- How HTML Attachments and Phishing Are Used In BEC Attacks
- How Microsoft became tech’s top dog again
- Windows Vulnerabilities Exploited for Code Execution, Privilege Escalation
- Windows 10 runs again — but for how long?
- Google offering TEN grants to women researchers attending HITB Security Conference in Amsterdam
- What Google can really do with Nest’s data
- Yahoo to face class action lawsuit over email spying claims
- Saflok Lock Vulnerability Can Be Exploited to Open Millions of Doors