Uh oh. You got an email. Possibly "from" your own email address. The bad guy sending the email says they're targeting YOU and YOU specifically. That they've got access to your …
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Niamh Ancell, writing for Cybernews , asked me an interesting question recently. The question was: Should you delete your old emails? Is it risky to keep a long and lengthy email…
Hey, nerds! Do you use the Laravel php framework when developing web applications? Do you also use Mailgun to send email from said application? Did you forget to turn off debug m…
Bleeping Computer’s Sergiu Gatlan reports on a dire DMARC warning from the US National Security Agency (NSA): It seems that North Korea loves to send phishing emails, and they se…
Multiple folks have shared this along lately and though I’ve mentioned it in passing in a prior post , I thought it would be good to pull together an overview and roundup of what…
The Register's Thomas Claburn details a recently shared research paper exposing troubling examples of loopholes in email authentication , allowing bad guys to spoof messages …
DKIM replay attacks are one of the new big things lately, and they work like this: Take a DKIM signed email message, and re-send it to a billion other people. Maybe add another h…
Rackspace appears to have suffered a security issue related to their Hosted Exchange mailbox environment, starting on December 2nd. You can find more information here , here and…
It's always good to take a look at email functionality through a security lens. Head on over to Krebs on Security to check out " The Security Pros and Cons of Using Ema…
Here's one I almost missed, from a couple of weeks ago: According to Wired, Cloudflare is moving into the email security space . The goal? To better protect against email-del…
PCWorld's Mark Hachman explains Google's plans to automatically enroll new users into multi-factor authentication to better protect Google accounts from unauthorized acc…
Michael Adkins, Mail Integrity Engineer at Facebook summarizes it thusly : "STARTTLS encryption is widely supported and has achieved critical mass despite some issues with c…
