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Email Spoofing Attacks Are Everywhere—Here’s How to Protect Yourself

Email has become an integral part of our daily communication, often used without a second thought regarding its origin until an issue arises. Cybercriminals exploit this implicit trust through a tactic known as email spoofing, which involves falsifying the sender’s identity to make messages appear as though they originate from a trusted source, such as a financial institution, a supervisor, or a reputable service provider. Unlike generic spam, these messages are often meticulously crafted to deceive recipients into disclosing sensitive information or authorising fraudulent actions.  Spoofing takes advantage of vulnerabilities in the underlying email infrastructure, specifically the SMTP protocol, which lacks built-in sender authentication. By faking the “FROM” field and using convincing language, spoofed emails can be nearly indistinguishable from legitimate ones. In a recent high-profile incident, businesses such as Pepco Group lost millions, and hotel staff were misled by fake...
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Why zero trust is the cornerstone of modern enterprise cybersecurity

By Shibu Paul, Vice President – International Sales at Array Networks In today’s always-connected world, the traditional boundaries of business are disappearing. Work no longer happens just within office walls or locked-down networks. With cloud applications and remote workers, mobiles and third parties, enterprise edges are now blurred and constantly evolving. Trusting everything within your system now, sometimes is a gamble. In this new reality, assuming everything inside your network is safe has become a risky bet. Traditional security models, ones that trust internal traffic by default are starting to feel like locking the front door while leaving all the windows open, that might feel secure, but the truth is threats can come from anywhere, even within. That’s where Zero Trust Security enters the scene. Rather than trusting old assumptions, it begins with a clean slate: trust no one, validate everything. It’s a pragmatic, contemporary approach to cybersecurity that mirrors how hum...
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The Growing Threat of Phishing and Social Engineering Attack and How to Defend Against Them

Cy bersecurity threats are not about viruses or hacking anymore; they are now about manipulating individuals. Social engineering is a strategy that depends on deceiving people into disclosing sensitive information and is one of the most dangerous threats in the modern digital world. Although firewalls and encryption can prevent certain types of attacks, human vulnerability is still one of the simplest ways for cybercriminals to obtain personal information. Phishing, a social engineering tactic, is perhaps one of the most prevalent techniques used to take advantage of this weakness, and it’s changing at a rate never seen before. With increasingly sophisticated attacks, learning about them and how to protect yourself is important to individuals and companies alike. With advancements in technology, cybercriminals are also enhancing their methods. Phishing attacks using AI technology have become even more elaborate. Cybercriminals are now using deepfakes to replicate voices, facial featu...
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Is your WordPress site safe? Top security tips every WordPress site owner must know

If you run a WordPress website, it’s not the time to think that all is well simply because everything appears okay on the surface. Recent research has highlighted that more than 50,000 WordPress sites are vulnerable to hijack and has already breached—many of them without their owners ever realizing it. The problem lies not with WordPress itself, which hosts more than 40% of all websites in the world, but with its vast plugin ecosystem. Hackers are specifically looking for outdated or abandoned plugins and employing a less commonly used feature called the “mu-plugins” directory to add malicious code that runs quietly in the background. Mu-plugins autoload every time WordPress runs and go unnoticed by administrators in regular maintenance on the site, so it makes them an optimal hiding ground for resilient malicious code. With inside access, attackers can divert visitors to phishing websites, add spam content, or tamper with SEO rankings. Their aim is usually profit—via affiliate scam...
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Ensuring data privacy & compliance for banks to align with global standards like GDPR & DPDPA

By Shibu Paul, Vice President – International Sales, Array Networks In today’s digital world, data privacy has continued to be of great concern, especially in the banking and financial sectors. Banks play a crucial role in protecting all sensitive, private, financial information and identity. They help to keep our money safe and are known to be trusted institutions charged with holding large volumes of customer data that may comprise personal identification, financial transactions, and credit histories, thus rendering them good targets for cyber threats and data breaches. Customers’ trust in their banks relies primarily on how secure these banks keep their personal data. And in current times, banks are needed to implement robust data protection measures, given the increasing volume and sophistication of cyberattacks. Banks are not only threatened by cyber-attacks but also by regulatory authorities, as governments across the world are globally strengthening regulations to protect perso...
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Scalable and Cost-Effective Load Management Solutions

In an exclusive interview with CIOTechOutlook, Shibu Paul, Vice President of International Sales at Array Networks shared his valuable input on the critical role of load balancing in optimizing IT infrastructure amid the explosive growth of global data. He discusses the challenges organizations face in forecasting unpredictable user demand and ensuring seamless traffic distribution to maintain high availability. Sudden surges in user requests can overwhelm servers, causing performance issues or downtime. What strategies do you suggest for forecasting unpredictable demand to ensure optimal load distribution? The phenomenal explosion of world data, of which 90% has come from the previous two years, has raised enormously the need for effective IT infrastructure. With user volumes projected at 200 zettabytes, organizations need to embrace strategies in controlling unpredictable peaks in user demand in order not to experience any issues with performance as well as downtime. Load balancing i...
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