Posts Tagged ‘Antiphishing’
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The 2012 Sumo Awards: The Anatomy of Banking Phish (Infographic)
Mar 06, 2012 | Read more
One phish. Two phish. Red phish. Blue phish. Ever wonder why some phish are stopped by IP-reputation blockers and spam filters while others make it to the inbox? We wondered the same thing and decided to conduct a bit of research to understand why some phish are more effective than others. Our research focused on [...]
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Agari Announces Annual Sumo Awards to “Dishonor” Phishing’s Biggest Contributors; Nearly 100% of Successful Banking Phish used Compromised, Legitimate Servers from Unsuspecting Companies
Mar 06, 2012 | Press Release
Palo Alto, California – March 6, 2012 … Agari announces the first Annual Sumo Awards to dishonor phishing’s biggest contributors and enablers. The Sumo Awards categories identify why phish emails succeed, highlight unknowing contributors who aid criminal phishing, and suggest how businesses can take collective action and responsibility to prevent malicious attacks through email. This [...]
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RSA Conference 2012: EMC TV Live Interview
Mar 01, 2012 | Read more
Earlier in the week, Pat Peterson, Agari’s CEO, did an interview with EMC TV Live at RSA. Check out the video below.
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Agari expands use of DMARC email security standard through new program
Feb 28, 2012 | Infosecurity Magazine
Based on the DMARC email authentication standard announced last month, Agari has launched a receiver program that enables mailbox providers to adopt DMARC and improve their customers’ email security. Domain-based message authentication, reporting, and conformance (DMARC) is the technical standard developed by DMARC.org, a group of 15 email service and technology providers, to fight deceptive [...]
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Consumer email wave to surf anti-phishing DMARC adoption
Feb 24, 2012 | The Register
Biggest webmail names open anti-spam intelligence for free The world’s biggest names in the consumer webmail space are sharing security intelligence with businesses for free to help drive adoption of the DMARC email-authentication system. Last month, Google, Microsoft, AOL, Facebook, and Yahoo! joined up with service providers such as PayPal to push the Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting [...]
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Google, Microsoft Team Up to Fight Phishing, Spoofed Emails With DMARC
Feb 01, 2012 | eWeek
Fifteen companies including PayPal, Google, Microsoft and Facebook are banding together to fight domain-based phishing and other email scams with the new DMARC specification. Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and other major email providers are committed to stomping out phishing attacks and other email-based Web scams. Major brands, such as Bank of America and Facebook, joined large [...]
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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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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 [...]
