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May
11
New Alert Warns of Malware Downloads Through Hotel Internet
GM/Chief Security Officer
Earlier this week the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) released a new warning targeted towards travelers of the threat of malicious software injection on laptops through hotel internet connections. To me this was a little narrow and that we should broaden our thinking to include that general security and safe computing best practices should be observed when connecting to ANY wireless networks, not just hotel networks.
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Apr
30
APWG Global Phishing Survey Musings
GM/Chief Security Officer
I always enjoy when new reports are released from various industry orgs that discuss the latest trends in spam, phishing, and cyber crime. Last week the Anti-Phishing Working Group released the results from their 2H 2011 Global Phishing Survey. There …
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Apr
5
Mass Market Mac Malware Has Arrived!
GM/Chief Security Officer
Do you use a Mac? Have you heard about the Flashback trojan? If you answered “yes” to the first question and “no” to the second, listen up! Even if you answered “yes” to both questions, listen up anyway! Do you …
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Mar
6
Tango Down! “Core” Members of Hacker Groups Arrested
GM/Chief Security Officer
It was announced earlier today via this article on CNET that several members identified as affiliated with and “core” to the activities of the Lulzsec, Anonymous, and Antisec hacker groups have been arrested. The Anonymous, Antisec, and Lulzsec groups are …
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Feb
14
Ready to Learn More about DMARC? Join Our Webinar with ExactTarget
GM/Chief Security Officer
If you have any interest in the latest news around email, email security, or phishing you’ve probably heard the buzz following up last week’s announcement of a new technology to help fight phishing and spoofing emails called DMARC (which stands for Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance). Along with all of the interest that we have seen both from the media and from the industry-at-large, I’ve still seen a fair amount of confusion around what DMARC currently is and is not. I wanted to take a couple of moments to help provide a bit more clarity on the topic as well as discuss some of the upcoming ways in which Return Path is helping to continually educate the email and security world on DMARC.
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Jan
30
DMARC.org: A Giant Step Forward in the Fight Against Phishing
GM/Chief Security Officer
We are very excited today to announce our participation in the founding of DMARC.org (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance), a working group aimed at stopping email-borne security threats through authentication. The working group, which is launching publicly today, is a coalition of 15 companies dedicated to this mission, including AOL, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo!
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Jan
18
Return Path Teams up with BITS & FS-ISAC to Combat Phishing Against Financial Institutions
GM/Chief Security Officer
Today, Return Path is pleased to announce that we have entered into a partnership with the BITS (technology division of the Financial Services Roundtable) and FS-ISAC (Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center) organizations to offer our proactive anti-phishing solution, Domain Assurance, to its members. You can read more about the partnerships here and here.
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