Collaborate Disseminate
I wonder if the lack of an SPF DNS record is a factor in the decision to mark a message as spam.
I understand that an SPF fail is definitively such a factor, i.e. when SPF is configured, but a message has "MAIL FROM" / "Retu… Continue reading If I leave SPF not set on my domain, is that a factor for email servers to mark emails from this domain as spam?
A reader got in touch with me regarding a suspicious email they had received claiming to come from Facebook.
What I expected to be a simple phishing email turned out to be something much more curious… Continue reading Fake Facebook email invites you to tell 39 strangers you were duped
I have recently received a typical spam email, but seeing it’s from domain gov.ua I have decided to examine it’s headers knowing that From field is not clear indicator of the sender.
To my surprise, the email originating from a mail client… Continue reading Was this spam email routed through Ukraine goverment’s mail servers? [closed]
Sure, we may have a lower investment in the collective good, but we’ve also been basically conditioned to avoid answering the phone at any and all costs. Continue reading The Real Reason Contact Tracing Is Doomed in the US: Spam Calls
With a pig named Gertrude, Elon Musk demonstrated his startup Neuralink’s technology to build a digital link between brains and computers. A wireless link from the Neuralink device showed the pig’s activity activity as it snuffled around a pen on stage… Continue reading Elon Musk Shows Neuralink Brain Link Working In a Pig
Bitdefender Antispam Lab spotted an amusing extortion campaign yesterday. While many extortion scams use petty scare tactics to fool recipients into paying up, you can’t be worried if you don’t understand the scammer’s e-mail. Even though the subject o… Continue reading Poor Grammar Makes For a Poor Extortion Campaign; ’You Under Attack‘ Pay Us ’Before Make Drama’
The number of posts that Facebook removed for violating its policies around hate speech in the second quarter of 2020 more than doubled than the number of posts during the previous quarter, the company said. Facebook scrubbed 22.5 million pieces of hate speech — defined as violent or dehumanizing speech, statements of inferiority, slurs or calls for exclusion or segregation — from its platform, up from 9.6 million pieces of content in the first three months of the year. The uptick coincided with the removal of 14 networks that Facebook associated with “hate and/or white supremacist groups” such as the Ku Klux Klan, the Proud Boys and avowed neo-Nazi groups Atomwaffen and Blood & Honour. The update comes as part of the firm’s regular community standards enforcement report. Facebook also removed 1.5 billion fake accounts during the same period. The numbers come after civil rights attorneys Facebook hired to audit its […]
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In the last two weeks, Bitdefender telemetry has picked up a spam campaign leveraging the Coca-Cola Company name. The subject lines ranged from “COCA-COLA LOTTERY ORGANIZATION” to “Coca Cola Email Draw UK 2020 -Coca Cola Lucky Winner … Continue reading Scam Alert: Coca-Cola Scam Giveaways are After Your Personal Information
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Special guest Geoff White can’t resist using the podcast to promote his new book, “Crime Dot Com”, but other than that we also discuss the creepy (and apparently legal) way websites can find out your email and postal address even if y… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #190: Twitter hack arrests, email bad behaviour, and Fawkes vs facial recognition