Posts Tagged ‘SPF’
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A new way to net phish
Mar 19, 2012 | SC Magazine
Some 300 billion emails circulate each day, but they still can’t escape a fundamental flaw – that users who receive these messages can’t be certain who sent them. This underlying weakness has led to phishing and spam being persistent threats on the web for many years.
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Agari Buzz Episode #2: How Agari Works
Dec 21, 2011 | Read more
In this episode, Tim Draegen, Agari’s Director of Technology Strategy, talks with Daniel about how Agari works, key problems addressed, how it complements traditional perimeter email security solutions, and the underlying technologies behind the service.
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Agari Buzz Episode #1: Interview with CEO Patrick Peterson
Nov 30, 2011 | Read more
In this Episode, Daniel interviews Agari CEO Patrick Peterson about the history, core mission, and services of the company.
