Posts Tagged ‘domain phishing’
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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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AGARI Propels All Mailbox Providers to Secure their Customers with DMARC Receiver Program; Opens World’s Largest Email Trust Platform to Scale Global Inbox Protection
Feb 22, 2012 | Read more
MAAWG – San Francisco, California—February 21, 2012 … Agari announces the DMARC Receiver Program and opens its Email Trust Fabric to the world’s Mailbox Providers. Leveraging the new DMARC standard, announced recently by DMARC.org, AGARI’s simple, free program enables Mailbox Providers to adopt DMARC and improve their customers’ email security. For more information on the free [...]
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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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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 [...]
