Three-quarters of organizations experience successful email-borne attacks

New research released today by Barracuda shows 75 percent of organizations surveyed have experienced a successful email-borne attack in the last 12 months. What's more the study, carried out by Vanson Bourne, finds recovering from an email-borne security attack costs victims more than $1 million on average and 69 percent of those hit by ransomware say the attack started with an email. The fallout from an email attack can be significant. The most widely reported effects are downtime and business disruption (affecting 44 percent of those that had been hit), the loss of sensitive, confidential, and business-critical data (43 percent),… [Continue Reading]