How vulnerable are states to election interference from spoofed email?
[Sassy_Social_Share] Valimail has been monitoring the usage of email authentication technologies in election infrastructure for several years now. Our analysis shows that, at virtually every level of the American election infrastructure, there is massive vulnerability to email impersonation. This is due largely to the poor penetration of email authentication standards that can prevent spoofing: DMARC, SPF, and DKIM. […]
Is that email real or fake? Survey shows most can’t tell the difference
Lots of pundits have been talking about the “death of email,” but let’s get real. Email keeps growing, and we all keep using it. It is an unmatched, critical communications tool for business on all levels: within companies, between companies, and between companies and their customers. We are using it in different ways alongside other systems, but […]
$12.5 billion: The cost of email impersonation (and that’s just the tip of the iceberg)
Email impersonation is in the news again. On Friday, the news hit that the Department of Justice had indicted 12 Russians on counts of attempting to interfere with the 2016 election in the U.S. At least one of the indicted is accused of using spear-phishing techniques to gain entry to the Democratic National Committee. It was […]
