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Jun
9
Phishin’ Gone: Return Path Launches a New Product to Protect Consumers and Brands from Fraudulent Emails
CEO & Chairman
Today Return Path is announcing the launch of a new product aimed at fighting phishing emails. Domain Assurance includes an audit and a registry to help brands properly authenticate all of the email and allow ISPs to confidently block unauthenticated email. The service leverages Return Path’s relationships with more than 130 of top ISPs around the world and will launch with the participation of Yahoo!, Comcast, Cloudmark and Tucows.
Phishing messages are extremely dangerous, as they often contain links that lead to malware and viruses that can access private accounts and steal valuable personal data. These emails have a corrosive effect on brands as consumers become wary of any email from often-spoofed domains. …
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May
3
Lacking a Common Language
Some of the terms I see floating around the industry are silly and annoying, but probably harmless. Are you really a rock star if you’ve never gyrated on stage in front of 50,000 screaming fans? Can you call yourself a ninja when you want everyone to be able to see you, or a guru when your wisdom does not lead to enlightenment?
But misunderstanding common terms can also lead to far bigger mistakes.
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Apr
29
Return Path Welcomes Christine Borgia and Todd Herr to Our Receiver Services Team
Co-Founder, President
I’m very pleased to announce today that Return Path has hired Christine Borgia, formerly of AOL and Todd Herr, formerly of Time Warner Cable/Road Runner.
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Apr
29
Christine Borgia and Todd Herr, Formerly of AOL and Time Warner Cable/Road Runner, Join Return Path
Email Industry Experts Bring Experience In the Complex, Massive, 24×7 Fight That ISPs Wage Against Spam and Messaging Abuse
April 29, 2010 – New York, NY – Return Path, the global leader in email deliverability and reputation management services, today announced that Christine Borgia and Todd Herr, email industry veterans, have joined the company.
Borgia, former head of the Postmaster team at global ISP AOL, and Herr, former Postmaster at Time Warner Cable/Road Runner, will work with Return Path’s team of email/spam experts, including J.D. Falk, formerly of Yahoo!’s Postmaster Team, and Neil Schwartzman, long-time spam fighter, among many others. …
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Apr
19
Has Social Networking Surpassed Email?
Business Operations Analyst
As Return Path’s resident Business Analyst, I have become a bit of a geek about data graphics. A great chart can be a transformative experience that reveals new and insightful ideas. A bad experience with a chart can leave you feeling confused, misled, aggravated, betrayed, (and blogging…) Case in point: a recent edition of Silicon Alley Insider’s Chart of the Day email newsletter. It jumped out at me because …
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Apr
16
ClamAV and The Case of The Missing Mail
Some email discussion lists were all atwitter yesterday, as Sourcefire’s open-source anti-virus engine ClamAV version 0.94.x reached its end-of-life. …
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Mar
31
Debating Standards While the Sun Shines
The IETF — the Internet Engineering Task Force — is, simply put, the standards body for the internet. As a body, they’ve been responsible for nearly every technical protocol that makes the internet work, from TCP/IP and SMTP to more recent developments like IPv6 and OAuth.
It was a beautiful week to be in Anaheim, even in the ring of hotels surrounding Disneyland — temperatures above 70 degrees F., clear blue Southern California skies, while more than a foot of snow landed on Denver. But the 1,200 attendees of the IETF’s 77th meeting spent most of their time inside fluorescent-lit meeting rooms, engaged in deep engineering debates.
IETF is kind of the opposite of TED, that famous gathering of fast-talking deep thinkers. It still involves some of the smartest people in the world, but …
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Mar
31
Fake DNSBL Nszones.com Uncovered by Spamhaus
Fake DNSBL operators nszones.com were today named on The Spamhaus Project website.
Nszones.com apparently lists IPs found in other DNSBLs, and charges five euros for delisting.
Senders and receivers should beware this enterprise; like scareware, those websites and popups that randomly inform you your computer is infected with a virus, and they can sell you the solution, NSZones gives legitimate DNSBL operators a bad name by publishing fake data, and charging you to get delisted.
DNSBL listings can be tricky …
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Mar
29
New MAAWG Consumer Survey: Half of Global Email Users Willingly Click on Spam
Have you ever wondered who in the world clicks on a spam email? Someone must be clicking, the thinking goes, or else spammers would have no economic incentive to keep blasting.
Turns out that we have seen the clickers, and they are us. Well, maybe not readers of this blog or employees of Return Path, but they are people like the consumers and business professionals on our marketing files and subscribed to our online services.
Nearly half (43%) of email users in North America and Western Europe say they have knowingly opened or accessed spam – including …
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Mar
16
Same Spam, Different Day
McAfee just released their March 2010 spam report.
The good news: as a percentage of email, spam has remained flat.
The very bad news: Overall email volume is way up so the amount of spam has gone way up too. Translation: there is a lot more crap clogging up the system.
For large inbox providers a move toward systems that …
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