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The Atlantic on Phishing

In a recent article entitled Phishing Is the Internet’s Most Successful Con, the Atlantic observes: Phishing doesn’t attack computers. It attacks the people using computers. The Sting - The Art of the Con Cormac Herley, a principal researcher at Microsoft Research, observes in the article: Many security-professional and media recommendations exhort eternal vigilance, paying attention to every detail. This is terrible advice. I’m a professional with years of experience in this space and I don’t bother to inspect my emails or carefully read all my URLs: I have things to do. As a strategy for the constant level of [...]

rpziconix2018-09-18T14:26:38-04:00September 18th, 2018|Consumers and Email, Cybersecurity - General, Email Marketing, Iconix Truemark Service, Phishing, SP Guard, spear phishing|

Iconix Issued Ninth Patent for Email

The United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued Iconix's ninth patent titled "Rapid Identification of Message Authentication." The abstract for U.S. Patent 10,063,545, dated August 28, 2018, states: "Techniques are presented for uniquely identifying authentication associated with messages. A message is inspected for sender or domain identifying information associated with a sender of the message or a sender's domain. The identifying information is authenticated, and if authentication, then distinctive metadata is associated with the message. The distinctive metadata is presented or played in connection with the message for purposes of readily identifying the authentication.” Prof. Arun Vishwanath, Iconix’s Science [...]

rpziconix2018-09-04T08:05:25-04:00September 4th, 2018|Consumers and Email, Cybersecurity - General, Email Authentication, Email Marketing, Iconix Truemark Service, Phishing, SP Guard, spear phishing|

FBI Internet Crime Statistics

On May 7, 2018, the FBI published its report of online crimes, 2017 Internet Crime Report. This vis summaries the FBI's findings: The largest losses were attributed to the Business Email Compromise/Email Account Compromise in which the victim is tricked into sending money to criminals. This crime is almost exclusively committed using deceptive emails. Deceptive emails are also used to commit other internet crimes such as data breaches, identity theft, phishing, and ransomware. SP Guard fights email deception by helping users identify suspicious emails.

rpziconix2018-05-21T16:55:50-04:00May 21st, 2018|Consumers and Email, Cybersecurity - General, Email Marketing, Iconix Truemark Service, Phishing, SP Guard, spear phishing|

Iranians Indicted for Hacking

On Friday, March 23, 2018, the United States Justice Department charged nine Iranians with the cyber theft of massive amounts of U.S. intellectual property. Quoting from the Justice Department press release: The defendants were each leaders, contractors, associates, hackers-for-hire or affiliates of the Mabna Institute, an Iran-based company that, since at least 2013, conducted a coordinated campaign of cyber intrusions into computer systems belonging to 144 U.S. universities, 176 universities across 21 foreign countries, 47 domestic and foreign private sector companies, the U.S. Department of Labor, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the State of Hawaii, the State of Indiana, the [...]

rpziconix2018-03-27T14:47:18-04:00March 27th, 2018|Cybersecurity - General, Iconix Truemark Service, Phishing, SP Guard, spear phishing|

Spearphisher Steals $100 Million from Google and Facebook

Google and Facebook were victims of a spearphishing scam in which the attacker stole $100 million. Paragraph 6 of the indictment details some of the allegations: ... as part of the scheme, fraudulent phishing emails were sent to employees and agents of the Victim Companies. The emails purported to be from employees and agents of Company‑1 [the real supplier], but in truth and in fact, they were not sent or authorized by employees or agents of Company‑1. The fraudulent emails were sent from email accounts that were designed to create the false appearance that they were sent by employees and agents [...]

rpziconix2017-04-28T15:11:05-04:00April 28th, 2017|Iconix Truemark Service, Phishing, SP Guard, spear phishing|

Phishing as a Service

Look familiar? This is the familiar Google login page. The main display is correct. The google favicon is in the tab. The URL has gmail in it. Oh, but it isn't Gmail! In a recent blog posting, researchers at Fortinet remind us of this unfortunate fact: The easiest way to steal credentials is to ask for them! In this criminal enterprise, the service provides all the tools a bad guy needs. The bad guys offer an easy to use interface to create the fake gmail page. The bad guys provide the backend that harvests the credentials from the page. Finally, the [...]

rpziconix2017-01-07T17:35:09-05:00September 23rd, 2016|Consumers and Email, Cybersecurity - General, Iconix Truemark Service, Phishing, SP Guard, spear phishing|

Iconix Issued Eighth U.S. Patent For Email

ICONIX, Inc., the industry leader in visual email solutions, announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued Iconix’s eighth patent titled “System and Method for Securely Performing Multiple Stage Email Processing With Embedded Codes.” The abstract for U.S. Patent 9,325,528, dated April 26, 2016, states: “A system and method for performing email processing at multiple stages along an email delivery chain.” Technology from this patent is applicable to all of the Iconix® offerings, including the Iconix Truemark® service, which helps protect consumer users from phishing attacks, and Iconix SP GuardTM, which helps protect enterprises from spear-phishing attacks. The [...]

rpziconix2017-01-07T17:35:09-05:00April 28th, 2016|Consumers and Email, Cybersecurity - General, Email Authentication, Email Marketing, Iconix Truemark Service, Phishing, SP Guard, spear phishing|

Iconix Issued Seventh U.S. Patent For Email

ICONIX, Inc., the industry leader in visual email solutions, announced on September 15, 2015, that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued Iconix's seventh patent titled "User interface for email inbox to call attention differently to different classes of email." The abstract for U.S. Patent 9,137,048, dated September 15, 2015, states: "Sender emails have their Truemarks (icons) displayed in the sender column of a list view” and “fraudulent emails have a fraud icon displayed with a warning in the sender column.” Technology from this patent is used in all of the Iconix® offerings, including the Iconix Truemark® service, which [...]

rpziconix2017-01-07T17:35:10-05:00September 24th, 2015|Consumers and Email, Cybersecurity - General, Email Authentication, Email Marketing, Iconix Truemark Service, Phishing, SP Guard, spear phishing|

How Do Hackers Infiltrate Systems?

The accounts of tens of millions of Anthem members are stolen. $1 billion are stolen from banks. Sony Pictures is compromised. The Chinese steal US military aircraft plans. The President of the United States decries the losses and appoints someone to fix the problem. Yet, what is the problem? Professor Arun Vishwanath, writing in The Conversation tells us that the system resource being exploited over and over and over again isn't some router or disk drive or program -- it is you, the person operating the machine. It's You! In Before decrying the latest cyberbreach, consider your own cyberhygiene, [...]

rpziconix2017-01-07T17:35:13-05:00February 26th, 2015|Consumers and Email, Cybersecurity - General, Iconix Truemark Service, Phishing, SP Guard, spear phishing|

Iconix Issued Sixth U.S. Patent For Email

On December 2, 2014, the United States Patent and Trademark Office issued Iconix its sixth patent titled "RAPID IDENTIFICATION OF MESSAGE AUTHENTICATION." The abstract for U.S. Patent 8,903,742, dated December 2, 2014, states: "Techniques are presented for uniquely identifying authentication associated with messages.” Iconix filed the patent on October 10, 2011. Technology from this patent is used in all of the Iconix® offerings, including the Iconix Truemark® service, which helps protect consumer users from phishing attacks, and Iconix SP GuardTM, which protects enterprises from spear-phishing attacks. The Iconix services utilize the two main forms of email authentication – Sender Policy Framework (SPF) and DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) – to [...]

rpziconix2017-01-07T17:35:13-05:00December 17th, 2014|Consumers and Email, Cybersecurity - General, Email Authentication, Iconix Truemark Service, SP Guard, spear phishing|