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

The needs of marketing and IT/security teams rarely overlap in a way that’s beneficial for both, but in the words of the...

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

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

Related posts: What is DMARC? What is SPF? What is DKIM? The five key standards of email authentication For most of th...

Banks take security seriously. Photo by Jason Baker/Flickr. The march toward universal email authentication continues. T...

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

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...

RSA is one of the largest cybersecurity providers in the world, and its annual conference in San Francisco, happening th...

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

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...

RSA reports a meteoric rise in phishing.RSA’s Q2 2016 Threat Report tells a strong story of phishing on the increase. So...

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...

The bears may have been at it again. Photo credit Marcin Wichary In this season of beleaguered IT security for American ...

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

Image courtesy of Joonas Kiminki and I guess the original phisher. Unlocking a lost or stolen mobile device can be very ...

It’s been all too common a story this year. A certain government organization learns that phishing emails spoofing its i...

Photo credit: Tim Franklin Photography All too often, companies respond to the threat of phishing attacks by punishing t...

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...

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

Image: thethreesisters/FlickrTurns out some people have given away a whole lot of money to BEC scams.  Business email c...

Training won’t get there on its own. Image: US Embassy/Flickr A recent IT World Canada article discusses a presentation ...

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. ...

In its recent report Fighting Phishing: Protect Your Brand Gartner lays out a series of recommended steps to reduce the ...

In the wake of the much-discussed payroll company that fired an employee for falling victim to a spear phishing scam, an...

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 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...