Collaborate Disseminate
At least 3.4 billion fake emails are sent around the world every day — with most industries remaining vulnerable to spear-phishing and “spoofing” cyberattacks simply because they’re not implementing industry-standard authentication protocols, according… Continue reading 3.4 billion fake emails are sent around the world every day
A friend received a spoofed email (from Bank of America using an uber.com address) which was correctly identified as ‘spam’ by Gmail. However, looking at the raw message it seems to have passed SPF, DKIM and DMARC checks.
1… Continue reading How did a phishing email pass SPF, DKIM and DMARC?
DMARC produces “pass” result if and only if at least one of SPF and DKIM checks pass. It has been noted that DKIM provides stronger protection of the two (if implemented properly). But, in order to require namely DKIM passing… Continue reading What is the reason for DMARC spec to not require specifically SPF or DKIM pass?
I have spent a bit of time researching SPF, DKIM and DMARC mechanisms however If I understand correctly, these help the recipient to confirm whether the domain is legitimate but only if they have these mechanisms configured c… Continue reading SPF, DKIM and DMARC – How do receiving/recipient mail servers know how and when to validate the mail?
Only 28% of gov.uk domains have been proactive in setting up DMARC appropriately, in line with UK Government Digital Service (GDS) advice in preparation for the retirement of the Government Secure Intranet (GSI) platform in March 2019. Since 1996, the … Continue reading Fewer than 28% of gov.uk using DMARC effectively in line with guidelines
In order to have mail exchanger MX servers to be able to deliver mail to the primary MX, both SPF and DMARC checks needs to be bypassed when the connection is made from a secondary MX. For SPF this is quite straightforward: if the secondar… Continue reading Bypassing OpenDMARC checks by forging Authentication-Results
I began using ProtonMail email service, I like it that much, that I connected my domain yesterday and did appropriate changes to DNS.
This page of ProtonMail’s knowledgebase says how DMARC shall be set up. An image for the w… Continue reading DMARC on ProtonMail custom domain
U.S. federal government agencies and many major enterprises have made significant strides to thwart the spread of fake emails, a major cybersecurity attack vector. But many organizations remain susceptible because they’re still not using readily … Continue reading Email authentication use growing steadily in every industry sector
Account takeover-based (ATO) attacks now comprise 20 percent of advanced email attacks, according to Agari’s Q1 2019 Email Fraud & Identity Deception Trends report. ATO attacks are dangerous because they are more difficult to detect than tra… Continue reading Employees report 23,000 phishing incidents annually, costing $4.3 million to investigate
2018 shed a lot of light on how expensive successful phishing attacks can be, with the FBI reporting in July well over $12B in financial losses due to business email compromise and Anthem reaching a $16M settlement in October due to phishing-driven dat… Continue reading Email security predictions: What we can expect in 2019