Feb
14

Ready to Learn More about DMARC? Join Our Webinar with ExactTarget


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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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Jul
3

Beware Spoofed Google+ Invites After Your Info and Your Money


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After much ballyhoo Google+, Google’s recently launched competitor to Facebook, has launched to a limited audience (as is status quo for many of Google’s services as it comes out of the gates).  Typically expansion of the user base of these …

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Jun
2

Keep Calm and Carry On. “Gmail” Was Not Hacked…


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…and neither was Google…at least not this time. If you read some of the mainstream media, your ears might have perked up when you saw some of the headlines that Gmail was hacked.  One of the original front page headlines …

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May
2

Death of bin Laden to Spawn New Wave of Cyber Activity


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We’ve seen it all too often already.  Whenever a major news story breaks, spammers and other cybercriminals mobilize quickly, assembling their own forces to create realistic looking news stories and lures to videos meant to entice anyone and everyone who …

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Mar
15

Does the Security Industry Care About Email Anymore?


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Spam. It’s the problem that you can’t stop talking about when looking at your inbox, and the problem that you don’t hear a peep about otherwise. Globally, spam is still a big problem. According to Symantec’s February 2011 Intelligence Report, …

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