We’ll close (for now) our three part series on the state of domain-based authentication for emails by completing the story on technologies being deployed or defined to improve the security of the email ecosystem. In Part 1, we wrote about using Sender Policy Framework (SPF) and DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) to authenticate the sending mail […]
Building a safer email ecosystem with DMARC In our previous post, we described two techniques for authenticating an email sender: Sender Policy Framework (SPF), IETF RFC 7208, which verifies if the sending MTA is indeed authorized to send mail on behalf of a domain; and DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM), IETF RFC 6376, where a domain shows “ownership” of a mail […]
Forged emails are extremely common. Most of the time forged emails are merely a nuisance.However, if you accidentally share information with or click on a link from someone who sent a forged email, the results can devastate your goal or even your site, or if it’s really evil, an entire computer. Here’s some information about how to […]
We have just completed a long series of articles discussing how attackers forge email messages and what technologies and techniques can be used to counter these attacks. See: Email Identity and Forged Email. In this post, we will discuss some best practices when using LuxSci to maximize your protection against forged email messages.
The Internet is rife with fake and forged email. Typically these are email messages that appear to be from a friend, relative, business acquaintance, or vendor that ask you to do something. If you trust that the message is really from this person, you are much more likely to take whatever action is requested — […]
