Business Email Compromise

How a revolutionary technology was usurped for evil, and what we can do about it Since its inception, email has gone from a novelty, to a necessity, to at times a nuisance, and now, to downright nefarious. “You’ve got mail” has somehow turned into “You’ve got malware.” Email has become and remains…

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who have been affected by Business Email Compromise (BEC) scams and those who don’t know they have been hit with BEC. It’s happening all the time, in your company, right now. People are getting emails that look official, from a realistic company ema…

If an average employee at your company got an email from an executive with an urgent request, would they question whether the email was coming from the actual sender? They probably wouldn’t. The reality is that most people would act on the request because of its time-sensitive nature. They assume th…