Collaborate Disseminate
As we head into the 2020 election season in the United States, a key component of the U.S. election infrastructure remains vulnerable to attack. Only 5% of the country’s largest counties are protecting their election officials from impersonation,… Continue reading Research: Email remains a weak link in U.S. election infrastructure
Phishing is still a vector to attack presidential campaigns. Many 2020 campaigns still aren’t using best practice by implementing a proper DMARC policy.
The post But Their Emails: Many 2020 Campaigns Still Risk Phishing Attacks appeared first on Secur… Continue reading But Their Emails: Many 2020 Campaigns Still Risk Phishing Attacks
I set up DKIM, DMARC and SPF on my domain/server a few years ago, and never touched it again since then.
Here are my DNS records (my domain is mydomain.com and my IP addresses are 1.1.1.1 and 2001::1):
mydomain.com. 0 TXT “v=spf1… Continue reading DMARC report for mails I didn’t send
If a mail sender encodes the sender address in the from: field, the Mail Transfer Agent only checks the sender after the unencoded @. In this way, protection mechanisms like SPF/DKIM/DMARC are subverted.
Is there are any mit… Continue reading how to mitigate mailsploit
850,000 domains worldwide now have DMARC records, a 5x increase since 2016, according to Valimail. However, less than 17% of global DMARC records are at enforcement — meaning fake emails that appear to come from those domains are still arriving in reci… Continue reading BEC explodes as attackers exploit email’s identity crisis
Many election commissions are focused on quickly adapting and updating their cybersecurity; however, commissions still need to dedicate resources to updating outdated operating systems and protecting their email domains from being spoofed, according to… Continue reading Cyber risk assessment of U.S. election commissions finds critical areas for improvement
I’ve seen this question asked before, but unfortunately, don’t understand the responses. I think its something to do with “from” headers being defined differently by different standards. I’ve added all the domains in the “from” to SPF rec… Continue reading Why is DMARC failing when SPF and DKIM are passing?
Supply chains often are long and complex, and as organizations rely more and more on data to drive their businesses, digital supply chains continue to grow. And as the supply chains continue to grow, so do expectations and risks. To increase profits, … Continue reading The Journey of Securing a Long-Tail Supply Chain
Standard email authentication to prevent spoofing and phishing remains elusive for most. Continue reading ThreatList: DMARC Adoption Nonexistent at 80% of Orgs
By implementing DMARC, brands lower the odds of their domains being spoofed and used for phishing attacks on recipients. Still, 79.7% of all domains analyzed have no DMARC policy in place, according to 250ok. The result of a domain not implementing any… Continue reading Companies still don’t understand the importance of DMARC adoption