Cybercrime

Cybercriminals Posing as Lenders & Escrow Agents for Payment Fraud

March 21, 2024 / in Blog / by Zafar Khan, RPost CEO

There’s a lot of posing going on when it comes to cybercrime.

If you’ve spent this past workweek furiously trying to figure where I’d wind up for this installment of Tech Essentials (and hopefully win your office betting pool), you can now put your pencils down because I’ve arrived in Pisa, Italy.

Win the Lukewarm War Against the Eavesdroppers Who May be Peering into Your Sensitive Emails

March 01, 2024 / in Blog / by Zafar Khan, RPost CEO

In today’s cybercrime vs cybersecurity theater, there is an element of cat and mouse going on. Now you can be the Cat! 

Armand here again—this time from Langley, VA, home of the US Central Intelligence Agency. Why am I hanging out near the HQ of the world’s foremost spy organization? To make a point about how cybercrime vs cybersecurity is very much a cat and mouse, spy vs. spy affair.

Protect Against Human-Managed Attacks That Penetrate Both Your Security and of Your Email Recipients

September 22, 2023 / in Blog / by Zafar Khan, RPost CEO

Got a Billion-Dollar IT Budget? If Not, Read On…

Got a billion-dollar IT budget? Got the best Microsoft cybersecurity tools money can buy? Got teams and teams of IT staff who proactively monitor lights blinking on servers and charts on screens looking for cybercriminal activity within your network?

How Cybercriminals are Bypassing Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) in Email Accounts

September 15, 2023 / in Blog / by Zafar Khan, RPost CEO

How Cybercriminals are Foiling Today’s 2FA for Email Accounts.

Dr. Suess created that grey fuzzy-haired creature many years ago, the Grinch, who stole Christmas. While not quite as cute and fuzzy as the Grinch, today’s cybercriminals are posing as a similar sounding nefarious activity, the Glitch.

Mastering Conversation with AI: The Art of Prompting for Powerful Interactions

August 18, 2023 / in Blog / by Zafar Khan, RPost CEO

The Art of Prompting – unleashing the power of conversation in the age of AI

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." This quote attributed to Socrates, while controversial, underscores the importance of humility in our quest for knowledge.

Ensure Email Security with RMail's Right Recipient & RDocs Features

July 21, 2023 / in Blog / by Zafar Khan, RPost CEO

Espionage or Error? The US military’s new email nemesis is Timbuktu.

Where are most of the US Military’s secrets and not so secrets ending up? Not in one of the cybercriminal hotbed countries, but in the ancient trading post on the trans-Saharan caravan route, the city of Timbuktu.

How to Protect Your Business Against Lookalike Domain Scam

July 14, 2023 / in Blog / by Zafar Khan, RPost CEO

Falling Prey to a Lookalike Domain scheme can get your entire organization and its clients in major trouble.

Alexander Pope famously wrote, “to err is human, to forgive divine.” It’s usually a nice, refined thing to say to someone when you screw up—the implication is that people make mistakes, and to look past those mistakes is an uncommonly gracious thing to do. 

Cybercriminals are Changing QuickBooks Payments Merchant Account Details and Sending Your Accounts Receivable Overseas

July 07, 2023 / in Blog / by Zafar Khan, RPost CEO

Summer is all about baseball, but it’s also about cybercriminal lures targeting lawyers, insurance professionals, and any business that accepts credit cards.

With July 4th in the rear-view mirror, we’re now in peak summer season, which means baseball season. (I happen to love baseball and equate it with long summer nights, hot dogs, sprinklers, and days off from school.)

With Email Eavesdropping Alerts, You Will Know When You or Your Clients are Being Drawn into Email Schemes

June 30, 2023 / in Blog / by Zafar Khan, RPost CEO

A blissful way to counter payment paranoia.

Now there’s another common syndrome in the working world that I’d like to shed a light on: “Payment Paranoia”.

Secure Way to Share Passwords via Email

June 23, 2023 / in Blog / by Zafar Khan, RPost CEO

It’s summer now, and you’re going to be headed on a nice vacation soon. You’re putting together all your to-do lists so you can truly escape from the office without anyone bothering you. About a week out from your big trip, you ask your colleague, Jerry, to cover for you on some key accounts. Jerry, being the mensch that he is, agrees. After crafting that clever out-of-office reply, you’re now ready to send over your login credentials to Jerry who happens to work remotely in Tashkent.