Mimecast for Microsoft 365 hacked
Mimecast, a company dedicated to the management and security of Microsoft 365 products, has announced that one of its security certificates has been the target of a cyber attack.
The company said in a blog post that about 10 percent of its customers were using the compromised certificate. Less t...
Mimecast buys MessageControl to increase the security of emails
Mimecast, an email security provider, has recently acquired MessageControl messaging security provider, which wa owned by eTorch. MessageControl service uses AI to detect and control social engineering activities by securing messages.
The acquisition offers Mimecast the opportunity to enh...
Security company Mimecast acquires Segasec
Cybersecurity company Segasec, based in Tel Aviv, has a new owner since Wednesday. Mimecast, the company specialising in e-mail security, is taking over the Israeli operation for some forty million dollars.
With the purchase of Segasec, Mimecast adds the second Israeli cyrus security start-up to...
Serious leak in Microsoft Excel puts 120 million users at risk
Mimecast security researchers have discovered a vulnerability in Power Query, a feature in Microsoft Excel that exposes 120 million users to a possible attack. A patch is not yet available.
Power Query is a business intelligence tool that allows users to integrate their Excel spreadsheets with other...
“Number of impersonation attacks increased by 70 percent.
The number of impersonation attacks worldwide has increased by almost 70% in just one year. Mimecast states this in its annual State of Email Security report (pdf), which is based on research among 1,025 IT decision-makers.
According to the report, impersonation attacks are 67 percent more common t...
Mimecast Threat Center must provide companies with up-to-date threat information
Mimecast wants to further secure companies through its new Threat Center. Experts from the security company keep a constant eye on the threat assessment and provide organisations with relevant and practical information. As a result, companies need to tighten their security against current threats, a...
“Dangerous URLs are increasingly slipping past email security.
Although email providers do their utmost to detect dangerous URLs, they are less and less successful in doing so. The number of unblocked e-mails with links to dangerous websites rose by no less than 125 percent in the past quarter. This is what Mimecast says in the latest edition of its Email Secur...
Mimecast takes over Simply Migrate for easier data migration
Mimecast announced today that it has taken over Simply Migrate. The company that offers e-mail and data security thus takes over the provider of data migration technology. With the acquisition, Mimecast's portfolio will become much more extensive.
Mimecast expands its migration services with the por...
Serious Microsoft Office vulnerability leaks sensitive information
Mimecast informs Techzine that it has found a serious memory leak in Microsoft Office, which may leak sensitive information such as passwords. Due to the leak, users are at risk when creating, editing, opening and saving an Office file with ActiveX. Office includes popular programs such as Word, Exc...
Mimecast adds threat information from mail to IBM QRadar
Mimecast, provider of e-mail and data security, makes its e-mail security information available for the threat intelligence solution IBM QRadar. This gives security teams a better understanding of potential vulnerabilities, current attacks and potential threats via e-mail.
IBM QRadar groups and moni...