This month, in order to help communicate all the changes that are coming by both us here at Sperry Software and concerning Microsoft, I’ve decided to start a new video series. First up is a high level overview of our flagship product, Safeguard Send for Microsoft 365. You can view it at on our YouTube […]
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3 Ways Customers Use Schedule Recurring Email for Office 365 to Save Time and Increase Productivity
Although AI is fast becoming a way to cutdown on tedious tasks, there are still traditional ways to save time which are not prone to hallucinations or are too expensive. Schedule Recurring Email for Office 365 is a powerful tool that allows you to send out emails on a recurring basis from the cloud using […]
Introducing Phishing Net AI for Microsoft 365
A few weeks ago, we wrote about the coming onslaught of AI powered spear phishing email campaigns, where highly convincing emails could be generated by AI and sent out by rented phishing services. And then last week we noticed in our own main mailbox our first pretty good fake email: You can see the fake […]
How a Simple Typo Exposed US Military Secrets to Mali (and How to Avoid It)
Imagine sending an email with confidential information to the wrong person, just because you typed one letter wrong. That’s what happened to the US military, who for over 10 years have been sending millions of emails to Mali, a West African country allied with Russia, instead of their own .MIL domain according to an article […]
Safeguard Send for Microsoft 365 Can Now Prompt When Sending Email to Two Different Companies
This month we are introducing the following new features for the Safeguard Send for Microsoft 365 add-in for Outlook: New rules are made to run first by default Your main company rule(s) are now created on your behalf when a new subdomain gets added or creating a new test user New condition allows you […]
Windows 10 and Sperry Software v7.1 Causing Outlook to Disconnect
Recently Microsoft issued a security update for Outlook that is causing a problem with all our version 7.1 (desktop) add-ins, but only if you are also on Windows 10 (Pro or Home). The symptom is this: When you go to send an email, the email goes into the Outbox, but then the mailbox becomes disconnected. […]
The Rising Tide of AI-Powered Spear Phishing
Cybersecurity is not just a concern but a crucial necessity. One of the emerging and deeply unsettling trends we’ve noticed is the incorporation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in spear phishing attacks, which is rapidly escalating the sophistication and success rate of these threats. This article aims to explore this perilous intersection of AI and spear […]
Thinking About Switching to the Newest Version of Microsoft Outlook? Read This First…
You might have been offered to try the newest version of Outlook like several of our customers have been reporting. It shows up as a toggle button in the upper right of the Outlook desktop window that says “Try the new Outlook”: The new version looks similar to the web based version of Outlook, […]