Fixing Email Security: It's Still A Rocky Road Ahead
SiliconANGLE , Thursday, June 1,2023
The foundational protocols for making email more secure and less of a threat have been in place for almost a decade, yet they remain mostly unused, poorly implemented and largely ineffective.
A recent report from Sendlayer shows just how much of a problem that is.
We all know that email is terribly insecure. If we get distracted, we can easily click on a piece of malware or get connected to a phishing site that will steal our credentials.
All it takes is a single user to be convinced that a malevolent missive is legitimate. And that single misplaced message can cause a world of hurt, beginning with a ransomware attack, or heaps of money transferred to a criminal's bank account, or an upload of private documents across Wikileaks and the dark web.