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Email reaches half the world’s population, and is the leading attack vector for cyber crime. Everyone from petty crimina...

Almost 90% of email attacks are based on fake sender identities, either of brands (83%) or individuals (6%), according t...

Lots of pundits have been talking about the “death of email,” but let’s get real. Email keeps growing, and we all keep u...

The DMARC standard defines a number of different tags that can be used in a DMARC record. Some of these tags are require...

In the beginning, the Internet wizards created email. And it was good: Email’s relatively simple protocols let anyone co...

Love it or hate it, email is the most ubiquitous channel for communication ever invented (apart from the telephone), rea...

In our quest to authenticate the world’s emails, a big part of Valimail’s job is helping domain owners get to email auth...

Related posts: What is email authentication? What is DMARC? What is DKIM? The five key standards of email authenticatio...

MIT’s Kresge Auditorium, site of the MITSloan CIO Symposium. Photo credit: Gunnar Klack/Flickr We’re happy to announce t...

The movement to implement email authentication is gathering steam, and international cyber security experts are increasi...

According to the Anti-Phishing Working Group’s Q3 2016 report (.pdf), there are over 100,000 unique phishing sites activ...

There has been a lot of coverage in the media recently about spear phishing and the ‘CEO to CFO’ scam, and for good reas...

Spear phishing has gotten a lot more sophisticated since this photo was taken. Photo credit: Gerry Lauzon/Flickr I work ...

The Federal Trade Commission announced today that U.S. companies seem to understand the value of email authentication — ...

DMARC and email lists: BFFs at last. Photo source: Pixabay One of the most common technical concerns we hear about email...

DMARC uses the Domain Name System (DNS) to store records indicating how email receivers should evaluate incoming message...

Tax forms! Photo credit: Manchester Library/Flickr via photopin.com With tax season just ramping up for many companies, ...

Dear President-Elect Trump: As you take office on January 20, we are writing with a modest proposal: Make email great ag...

Harvard Kennedy School’s Littauer Building. Photo credit: KAKM on en.wikipedia A Russian phishing attack used a fake Har...

Facepalm. Photo credit: mrhong42/Flickr The U.S. Presidential Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity recently de...

Valimail CEO and cofounder Alexander García-Tobar recently spoke on the Wharton Business School talk show “Bay Area Vent...

A bit like building a gate and then leaving it open. Photo credit: h.koppdelaney More and more domains are adopting DMAR...

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson at an event in 2015. Photo credit: Gage Skidmore/Flickr “The most devastating at...

Hello…Elvis? Photo credit: Gunnshots Email impersonation scams, also known as business email compromise (BEC) or p...

Every company hits an inflection point — a point at which it’s no longer “if” there’s a market but “how fast” the compan...

Email authentication can help secure our cloud services just like SSL did our servers. Image credit: FutUndBeidl Valimai...

The tweet that started the whole thing. The IT press is blowing up with stories about the insecurity of various Trump or...

Photo courtesy of GDS Technology blog. We recently discussed governmental organizations that send out warnings rathe...

Leoni Group’s office in Bisitra, Romania, targeted by scammers. Leoni AG, a billion-dollar (market cap) manufacturer of ...

Canada Post mailbox. Photo by Cliffano Subagioa The official postal service of Canada recently warned customers to be on...

Don’t miss ValiMail in the news. Image credit: Jon S/Flickr It has been a big news week for ValiMail. In addition to our...

Unfortunately, not in a cute way. Photo credit: Ally/Flickr. Krebs on Security today published an article describing how...

Image via flickr/Dave Newman An FBI announcement released last week claimed that $3.1 Billion has been lost to business ...

Photo credit: Chris Lim/Flickr The Online Trust Alliance (OTA) recently published the 2016 results of its annual Online ...

Old bank vault door. Photo credit: John W. Iwanski/Flickr Phishing scams are costing American businesses big bucks. ...

The Huffington Post just featured an article detailing ten significant trends expected to change the world of email mark...

Something is missing in our security plan here. Photo: Bill Smith/Flickr If you have been following online security thre...

An employee at payroll service provider Alpha Payroll got fired for falling victim to a phishing scam, as CSO Magazine’s...

Not actually a Valimail rocket. Photo credit: NASA From inception, our vision has been to do something unique and audaci...

Fish drawing from 1801, via the Biodiversity Heritage Library/Flickr Phishing attacks are on the rise, and they’re getti...

The ever-increasing waves of email phishing attacks have spawned a flurry of how-to articles offering advice on how to ...

Don’t get caught like this fish. Photo: Lunar Wrasse via photopin. There has been a lot of coverage in the media rece...

The Domain Name System is one of the core services on the Internet. It’s not much of an exaggeration to state that if DN...

Note: A version of this post also appeared on CircleID. Given the increase in email fraud (phishing) and an increasingly...