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  • DMARC: an imperfect solution that can make a big difference

    US Senator Ron Wyden has written a letter ( pdf ) to the Department of Homeland Security, urging the US government to implement DMARC to “ensure hackers cannot send emails that impersonate federal agencies”. DMARC is an email security standard that was launched by a few major players in the field of email in 2012…

  • DMARC: an imperfect solution that can make a big difference

    US Senator Ron Wyden has written a letter ( pdf ) to the Department of Homeland Security, urging the US government to implement DMARC to “ensure hackers cannot send emails that impersonate federal agencies”. DMARC is an email security standard that was launched by a few major players in the field of email in 2012…

  • TorrentLocker spam has DMARC enabled

    Use of email authentication technique unlikely to bring any advantage. Last week, Trend Micro researcher Jon Oliver (who presented a paper on Twitter abuse at VB2014) wrote an interesting blog post about a spam campaign that was spreading the ‘TorrentLocker’ ransomware and which, unusually, was using DMARC. TorrentLocker is one of the most prominent families…

  • Impressive results in latest VBSpam test

    Excellent performances in spam filter test – plus evidence of a correlation between spam ‘passing’ SPF and an increased delivery rate. No fewer than ten anti-spam solutions achieved a VBSpam+ award in VB’s latest spam filter test, with another ten achieving a standard VBSpam award. The results of the latest VBSpam test are good news…

  • EU report suggests 95% of email is spam

    Less than five per cent of all SMTP connections result in an email being delivered into a user’s inbox. A survey carried out by the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) among 92 internet and telecom providers suggests that less than five per cent of all SMTP connections result in an email being delivered…

  • VB announces latest VBSpam certification results

    Two products achieve top level VBSpam Platinum award. Virus Bulletin has announced the results of its second comparative review of anti-spam products, revealing two top-level awards. Of the nine products tested, two achieved VBSpam Platinum certification awards, while one VBSpam Gold award and two silver-level awards were handed out. VB’s Anti-spam Test Director Martijn Grooten…

  • DKIM usage shows significant growth

    US banks urged to use authentication method In a report on its website , Internet giant Cisco states it has been seeing almost 700,000 non-spam messages that contain valid DKIM signatures per week – a number that has almost tripled since a year ago. DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail) is an authentication method where the sending…

  • Sender authentication checks on the rise

    SPF records creep into top ten content triggers checked by ISPs. A report by email marketing software provider Lyris has revealed that use of the Sender Policy Framework (SPF) email authentication check is on the rise among ISPs. The company conducts quarterly research studies of deliverability rates for permission-based email marketing messages, and the Q2…

  • Unsafe computing in abundance

    Reports and statistics on unsafe computing practices. Last month saw a flurry of reports and statistics on unsafe computing practices. To kick off, almost a quarter of Internet-connected users in the UK believe they have suffered from a virus attack in the past year, according to figures released by the Office of National Statistics. In…