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US Cyber Safety Review Board on the 2023 Microsoft Exchange Hack

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US Cyber Safety Review Board released a report on the summer 2023 hack of Microsoft Exchange by China. It was a serious attack by the Chinese government that accessed the emails of senior U.S. government officials. From the executive summary: The Board finds that this intrusion was preventable …

A penny per email could curb our enormous data use | Letters

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Mike McClelland proposes a 1p charge for messages in response to an article on the downside of Ireland’s datacentre boom. Plus a letter from Sue Stephenson The long read ( Power grab: the hidden costs of Ireland’s datacentre boom, 15 February ) highlights the enormous cost in terms of …

Critical vulnerabilities in Exim threaten over 250k email servers worldwide

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Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Thousands of servers running the Exim mail transfer agent are vulnerable to potential attacks that exploit critical vulnerabilities, allowing remote execution of malicious code with little or no user interaction. The vulnerabilities were reported on Wednesday by Zero Day Initiative, but they largely escaped notice …

Critical Barracuda 0-day was used to backdoor networks for 8 months

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Enlarge (credit: Getty Images ) A critical vulnerability patched 10 days ago in widely used email software from IT security company Barracuda Networks has been under active exploitation since October. The vulnerability has been used to install multiple pieces of malware inside large organization networks and steal data, Barracuda said …

Home Office’s visa service apologises for email address data breach

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Private contractor running service sent email to applicants containing more than 170 email addresses The Home Office’s visa service has apologised for a data breach in which the email addresses of more than 170 people were mistakenly copied into an email circulated last week. More than 170 email …

How to configure an incoming email security gateway with Amazon WorkMail

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This blog post will walk you through the steps needed to integrate Amazon WorkMail with an email security gateway. Configuring WorkMail this way can provide a versatile defense strategy for inbound email threats. Amazon WorkMail is a secure, managed business email and calendar service. WorkMail leverages the email receiving …