Posts Tagged ‘Spearphishing’
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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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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 [...]
