Archive for January, 2012
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Google, Facebook, Bank Of America Behind New Email Security Standard
Jan 31, 2012 | Dark Reading
New specification for preventing phishing and email domain abuse likely to help email security, but will enterprises adopt it? Google, Microsoft, Facebook, the Bank of America, and PayPal are among a group of 15 companies that have banded together to help fill a major security gap in email, today releasing a specification for curbing phishing [...]
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Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Bank of America team to wipe out phishing
Jan 31, 2012 | NetworkWorld
Can industry heavyweights Google, PayPal, Microsoft and AOL — along with 11 others in high-tech such as Facebook and LinkedIn, as well as the financial world’s Bank of America and Fidelity Investments — succeed in stopping phishing attacks right in their tracks? In uniting behind an effort called DMARC.org unveiled today, the group says it can through [...]
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New Email Spec Aims to Tangle Phishing Lines
Jan 31, 2012 | TechNewsWorld
Fifteen leading email service providers and tech companies have announced a joint effort to fight phishers. Google (Nasdaq: GOOG), Facebook, PayPal, Yahoo (Nasdaq: YHOO) and Agari are among the companies behind the Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance(DMARC) spec. DMARC is a technical specification that standardizes how email receivers perform email authentication using well-known mechanisms. “The inspiration behind DMARC was PayPal’s and Google’s [...]
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Google, Microsoft Say DMARC Spec Stops Phishing
Jan 31, 2012 | InformationWeek
New email authentication framework called DMARC, backed by major email and security tool providers, aims to make spoofed domains in messages a thing of the past. Leading free email providers AOL, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo have banded together with financial, social media, and message security companies to make it easier to verify the authenticity of [...]
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DMARC – A Tectonic Shift in Email
Jan 30, 2012 | Read more
Last night the world of email changed forever. Fifteen companies including Agari, Google, Yahoo, AOL, Microsoft, PayPal, Facebook, LinkedIn and American Greetings publicly announced DMARC.org, a working group focused on putting the kybosh on domain phishing and brand hijacking. The new specification describes a scalable method for Email Senders and Receivers to work together to directly [...]
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Antiphishing standard in the works from Google, Facebook, others
Jan 30, 2012 | CNET
Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo, PayPal and others are working together on a standard that can be used across the Internet for blocking phishing e-mails. The 15 companies will be announcing on Monday DMARC.org, which stands for Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance–a system for verifying that e-mails are coming from legitimate companies and not imposters [...]
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Banks, Internet companies team up to fight spam
Jan 30, 2012 | Reuters
(Reuters) – Some of the world’s biggest Internet companies and financial services firms have developed a new approach to fighting email spam that they hope will reduce online scams. Facebook, Google Inc (GOOG.O) and Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) have joined with financial firms Bank of America Corp (BAC.N), Fidelity Investments and eBay Inc’s (EBAY.O) PayPal to [...]
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Web giants take on phishing in quest to make the Internet better
Jan 30, 2012 | GigaOm
Companies such as Google, PayPal, Facebook and Microsoft have teamed up to create a standard to help boost email security. They are part of a working group to create the DMARC standard, for Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance. It’s aimed at authenticating email to stop the spread of email that looks like it’s from [...]
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Email Giants Move to Slash ‘Phishing’
Jan 30, 2012 | Wall Street Journal
Email-service providers Google Inc., Yahoo Inc., Microsoft Corp. and AOL Inc. are backing a new effort intended to dramatically reduce “phishing” emails—which attempt to trick recipients into thinking they come from a legitimate source. The companies—along with others such as financial-service companies Bank of America Corp., FMR LLC’s Fidelity Investments and eBay Inc.’s PayPal—are hoping [...]
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AGARI Advances ‘Fixing Email’ With New DMARC Programs: “DMARC for Hackers” and “DMARC Fast Track”
Jan 30, 2012 | Press Release
PALO ALTO, CA, Jan 30, 2012 – Transforming email security and eliminating domain phishing, AGARI accelerates fixing email with new DMARC programs — “DMARC for Hackers” and “DMARC Fast Track.” AGARI’s “DMARC for Hackers” provides all the resources needed for email enthusiasts to experiment and creatively implement the DMARC specification. The “DMARC Fast Track” program [...]
