On October 3, 2023, Google and Yahoo announced a new set of requirements for email delivery that will become mandated by February 2024. For senders that send more than 5,000 emails a day to Gmail addresses, Google will require a set of authentication measures to be met in order to ensure secure email delivery…
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Malicious actors are always exploring new ways to access email inboxes. Over the past few years, cyber criminals have been using a method known as a ‘DKIM Replay Attack’, in which high reputation mailboxes are used to generate a legitimate message signature, which can then be amplified (or replayed) multiple times to send spam…
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Emails are an inevitable part of today’s corporate and personal life. But do you know what mechanisms a standard mail exchange process follows? Well, multiple elements are included, like email protocols, email service providers, mail user agents (MUAs), message submission agents (MSAs), mail delivery agents (MDAs), etc. ...Continue Reading: What’s the difference between SMTP,…
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As the digital world becomes more reliant on identity-based authorization for users, applications, and devices, it opens up the scope for identity-based attacks. This primarily targets the vulnerabilities in identity systems, aiming to exploit or manipulate them for malicious purposes. ...Continue Reading: How to Protect Against Identity-Based Attacks?
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Microsoft has announced that from July 2023, it will honor DMARC policies in M365 and its consumer properties. By respecting a domain’s DMARC policy, Microsoft helps create a safe digital environment for its customers and consumers by ensuring that exact domain impersonation attacks are blocked...Continue Reading: Microsoft announces its new handling of DMARC policies
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The PCI SSC has announced that as of March 2025, DMARC, the email security protocol that blocks exact domain impersonations, will be part of its anti-phishing mechanisms to protect users against phishing attacks...Continue Reading: Anti-phishing mechanisms such as DMARC, SPF, and DKIM to become a requirement for PCI DSS 4.0
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