Collaborate Disseminate
As the title says, I received an email from some Bulgarian email address saying that the sender has compromised my browser and thereby obtained control over my camera as well as gathering data on all my social media profiles…. Continue reading Received an email from a Bulgarian address trying to extort money
Does anyone know of any software to spoof the fingerprints and headers of all my emails sent via:
smtp and I am using pop and smtp from hotmail and gmail such that no one can tell its email sent from gmail
software for or h… Continue reading how to spoof headers and fingerprints on an email [on hold]
Just one of the 50 biggest federal IT contractors have adopted an important email security measure to guard against phishing, according to a new study. The Global Cyber Alliance’s (GCA) survey of the who’s who of Beltway contractors, including Lockheed Martin, Booz Allen Hamilton, and AT&T, found that all but one – analytics firm Engility, failed to use the Domain-based Message, Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC) protocol to block phishing attempts. Only one other contractor, the engineering firm and consultancy Tetra Tech, was implementing the second-highest DMARC control, in which phishing emails are quarantined. Meanwhile, more than half the contractors had yet to implement any DMARC policy whatsoever, according to the study. Phishing is one of hackers’ favorite tools for breaching a network, and the federal government has been trying to defend against it for years. DMARC fights phishing by creating a public record for checking whether an email sender […]
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From time to time I glance through my spam folder to gauge how the filters are working, and if they’re catching any “ham.” Most of the spam is really obvious, but I’m getting a few which made me wonder if somebody is using my… Continue reading How to tell ordinary spam from some abusing my mail?
Need advise for our company experiment. We are planning to observe the security awareness among our staff. I have an idea but lacking of knowledge on how to do it. I want to create spoofed email and send one .doc file inside … Continue reading Social Engineering Attack awareness using .doc and spoofed email
I think I received a phishing mail and I want to forward the email header/source to the company mentioned in the mail.
Is there any sensitive information in the header or source, besides the email text and addresses? For ex… Continue reading Does an email header/source contain sensitive information?
Just signed up for StackExchange today… That’s the only thing I can think of.
Do any of you think I could possibly be the victim of some kind of email exploit? I marked all of them as spam and left it as that. Weirdly eno… Continue reading I randomly have 11 subscriptions to newsletters on gmail. Should I be worried?
I have just received a message asking to consent to PayPal policy updates from the domain:
https://epl.paypal-communication.com
The actual link is full of trackers. Given the domain name, it sounds like a routinely email spoof. Also, vi… Continue reading Why would PayPal send messages from another domain?
It’s been more than a month since a mandatory Department of Homeland Security deadline passed for federal agencies to adopt security measures that stop attackers spoofing email — but more than a third have still failed to do so, according to an analysis of public records. What’s arguably worse is those that have implemented the measure called DMARC — Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance — have in many cases misconfigured it, meaning they remain exposed to spoofing. Federal IT specialists “aren’t picking up on the issue of subdomains,” explained Ian Breeze, a product manager at Easy Solutions, a vendor that provides software and advice to organizations seeking to implement DMARC, “They’re leaving their email subdomains open to fraud.” How DMARC works DMARC works by creating a public record that email systems can check to determine whether a message sender is in fact authorized to transmit on behalf of a […]
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A server I run has a minimal public-facing mail exposure, running postfix on port 25 (no authentication on this port; IMAP is accessible by other means). In my mail logs it is not uncommon to find ‘bogus’ mail destined for no… Continue reading On a server I run, bogus incoming mail for a username which is my name. Should I be worried?