John Sakellariadis writes: A report released late last month by Valimail, an email security vendor, warns that the vast majority of political action committees, states, counties, and election systems vendors have failed to implement a basic email security protocol known as DMARC, or Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance.
TechCrunch’s Frederic Lardinois covered the launch of Valimail Defend, quoting Valimail CEO and co-founder Alexander García-Tobar as well as Vivek Raman, the director of engineering at Yelp, a Valimail customer. Lardinois writes: “Since a large number of security breaches rely on spoofed emails, preventing those kinds of scams is now something that many a company’s chief information security officer is […]
Cnet’s Laura Hautala wrote about the recent spate of attacks on Senate staffers, quoting Valimail CEO Alexander García-Tobar: “It turns out impersonation is both the easiest and most common way that people get tricked on email.”
New data on email threats in the first half of 2018 shows that some 6.4 billion emails sent each day worldwide are fake, Dark Reading reports, picking up on Valimail’s Q2 email fraud report.
TechCrunch writer Taylor Hatmaker covered Valimail’s offer to help secure the U.S. election infrastructure with our anti-spoofing product, Valimail Enforce. “As Valimail observes, spear phishing attempts in which an attacker tricks their target into opening a malicious email are a particular problem.”