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Sep
29
DKIM History, Progress, and Future
This week the IETF DKIM Working Group officially concluded, after publishing a final few documents and updates. I can’t help thinking back to the meetings where I first heard about DKIM, and DomainKeys before it.
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Aug
1
The Monday HELO — August 1st, 2011
This week: forgetting passwords, remembering malware, the return of the webmail wars — and what if it all disconnected?
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Jul
18
The Monday HELO — July 18, 2011
This week: hackers in your voicemail, hackers in your email, hackers trying to get in, and keeping Google’s party private.
Welcome (after a brief hiatus) to the twelfth edition of The Monday HELO, in which Melinda Plemel synopsizes some of the most interesting recent happenings in email technology and messaging abuse.
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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
7
Filtering Mail the Old-Fashioned Way
Before graphical email programs were common — before web browsers were common, if you can imagine that — the average internet user actually had more control over their email environment than most do now. That level of control is only now beginning to reappear, with smart automated filters and so forth — but we would do well to learn from history.
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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
3
33 Years of Spam? No, Not Really.
Scattered around the Internet today (and every May) you’ll find various articles heralding the 33rd anniversary of spam, counting the years from Gary Thuerk’s message. They’ll remark that spam has been with us a long time, maybe quote a few anti-spam vendor statistics, and say spam isn’t going anywhere. But that’s just bad research.
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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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Apr
25
The Weekly HELO — April 25, 2011
This week: gamblers fold, leaders socialize, Asia runs dry, and Viagra jokes just aren’t funny anymore.
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Apr
11
The Weekly HELO — April 11, 2011
This week: Granny’s shovel, American-style privacy in France, European-style privacy in America, and Zeus and taxes. Welcome to the tenth edition of The Weekly HELO! Each week, Melinda Plemel synopsizes some of the most interesting current happenings in email technology …
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