From: FierceGovernmentIT
By David Perera
Email-based cyber penetrations should cause industry and government to consider utilizing alternative communication channels, says the European Network and Information Security Agency.
In a March 13 flash note (.pdf), the European Union’s cybersecurity agency says a raft of reports of cyber penetrations accomplished through spear-phishing–such as Alexandria, Va.-based Mandiant’s Feb. 19 report about Chinese military hacking–prompted it remind users about email insecurity.
“When you say that email is not secure, [people] are shocked,” said Louis Marinos, an ENISA senior expert risk management. Existing phishing filters and antivirus products “do not seem to be always working when attacks are performed over a long period of time,” the report says.
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