61 percent of organizations are worried about email-borne threats

Email is still the main vehicle for cybercriminals to deliver threats according to a new report, and 61 percent of IT decision makers think their organization will suffer a negative impact from an email-borne attack this year. The study from email and data security company Mimecast shows that impersonation attacks have increased 67 percent in comparison to the results in last year's report. What's more, 73 percent of those organizations impacted by impersonation attacks say they have experienced a direct loss, specifically loss of customers (28 percent), financial loss (29 percent) and data loss (40 percent). Phishing attacks are shown… [Continue Reading]