Tag: mimecast

  • ROPEMAKER email exploit is of limited practical use

    Researchers at Mimecast have published details ( pdf ) of an email exploit they call ‘ROPEMAKER’ (short for ‘Remotely Originated Post-delivery Email Manipulation Attacks Keeping Email Risky’), which allows an email sender with malicious intentions to modify the appearance of an email after it has been delivered. The idea is rather simple: a lot of…

  • ROPEMAKER email exploit is of limited practical use

    Researchers at Mimecast have published details ( pdf ) of an email exploit they call ‘ROPEMAKER’ (short for ‘Remotely Originated Post-delivery Email Manipulation Attacks Keeping Email Risky’), which allows an email sender with malicious intentions to modify the appearance of an email after it has been delivered. The idea is rather simple: a lot of…