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  • Netflix issue shows email verification really does matter

    In the email security community, the use of confirmed opt-in has long been a recommended practice: an email address given to you can’t be used until the account owner has confirmed (by clicking a link in or replying to a confirmation email) that they do indeed own that email address. When email service provider Mailchimp…

  • Netflix issue shows email verification really does matter

    In the email security community, the use of confirmed opt-in has long been a recommended practice: an email address given to you can’t be used until the account owner has confirmed (by clicking a link in or replying to a confirmation email) that they do indeed own that email address. When email service provider Mailchimp…

  • New IcoScript variant uses Gmail drafts for C&C communication

    Switch likely to make modular malware even stealthier. Researchers at Shape Security have found a new variant of the IcoScript RAT that makes use of draft emails stored in Gmail , Wired writes . This summer, we published a paper by G Data researcher Paul Rascagnères, who had discovered the malware, which was most notable…

  • Are Gmail’s new advertisements in breach of CAN-SPAM?

    Marketers upset about ’emails’ that you can’t unsubscribe from. A debate is happening among (anti-)spam experts on whether Gmail ‘s new way of displaying advertisements is in breach of anti-spam laws. It is easy to underestimate the importance of anti-spam laws. Of course, most of the spam sent today would be illegal, even without laws…

  • VB data supports Google’s claim to having reduced compromised accounts

    Internet giant may indeed do something right; Yahoo! has a real problem. Internet giant Google claims that a ‘complex risk analysis’ using ‘more than 120 variables’ has reduced the number of compromised accounts on its system by 99.7% since 2011. VB ‘s data suggests that this could indeed be the case. It is usually good…

  • ‘Hotmail and Gmail have best spam filter’ says Cascade spam test

    Comparative test did not take false positives into account. Researchers from Cascade Insights performed a comparative spam filtering test on the three major webmail providers and concluded that Hotmail performed best, shortly followed by Gmail , with Yahoo! a distant third. The researchers registered accounts at all three providers and, for comparison, a fourth one…

  • Webmail data leak hype deflated

    Rumoured phishing explosion grabs headlines, reality much more mundane. This week has seen some major news organisations picking up on the story of tens of thousands of sets of webmail access data appearing online, with rumours of a major and highly effective phishing campaign – possibly targeting children – rife across the web. As the…

  • Gmail CAPTCHA cracked

    Twenty per cent success rate sufficient to create thousands of spam accounts. Gmail has become the latest free webmail service to have its CAPTCHAs cracked by spammers. Following the recent news of the Yahoo Mail and Windows Live Mail CAPTCHAs having been cracked, the news of Gmail ‘s CAPTCHA being surpassed will come as little…

  • Another security hole found in GMail

    Vulnerability latest in a growing list of holes in Google’s web applications. A significant security hole has been found in Google ‘s web mail application GMail . Security researcher Petko Petrov announced the discovery of the flaw in GMail (in some countries known as Google Mail ) on his website , where he demonstrates a…