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Apple iOS 16 bonus: report SMS spam!

Mobile providers have been suggesting this for a while now (here's me talking about  Verizon  and this service apparently goes back ten years ) -- report that SMS spam so that somebody can do something about it! But the reporting process (at least on iPhone) was clunky. Manually forward the content of an SMS message to 7726 and then the 7726 bot replies, requesting the source phone numbe…
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Cloudflare plans to eat Proofpoint's lunch?

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-delivered threats (think phishing). They see a gap there; one I've noticed myself.

Proofpoint: Facebook, stop taking our domains away!

ZDNet's Catalin Cimpanu provides an overview of how internet security company  Proofpoint is suing Facebook , looking to stop Facebook from using UDRP (Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution) requests to wrest away certain Proofpoint-owned domain names being used for phishi…