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Did you know that when you send your email messages, they do not go directly to recipient mailboxes Did you know that your Internet Service Provider (ISP) stores copies of all your email messages on its mail servers before it tries to deliver them

A basic forged return address takes about ten seconds of work, and no technical skills above using a mouse and keyboard.

To forge a return address, you only need to change the email address in the settings in your email client. The next message you send will have the forged return address.

An expert can look through a the technical information in the email headers and can find inconsistencies showing the email is fake.

Digital certificates are a solution to this problem. There are two popular standards you can use at no cost: SMIME digital certificates, and PGP.

OpenPGP is a standard for secure email messaging. OpenPGP messages offer sender authentication using digital signatures and can be encrypted using public key cryptography to protect privacy. Since OpenPGP builds on and extends MIME,

OpenPGP messages inter-operate well with any standard-compliant email client, even if it does not support OpenPGP natively. OpenPGP messages also work well with HTML formatting and attachments, where old-style ASCII-armored PGP messages failed.

The Hindu

Google, Facebook, Bank Of America Behind New Email Security Standard Dark Reading New specification for preventing phishing and email domain abuse likely to help email security, but will enterprises adopt it? By Kelly Jackson Higgins Google, Microsoft, Facebook, the Bank of America, and PayPal are among a group of 15 companies that ... AGARI Advances 'Fixing Email' With New DMARC Programs: "DMARC for Hackers" and ...MarketWatch (press release) Google, Facebook, PayPal and Microsoft join forces to fight phishingEconsultancy (blog) Major tech companies join forces to stop phishingBigmouthmedia News eWeek -TechWeekEurope UK all 586 news articles »

Windows IT Pro

Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Others Partner on Email Security Windows IT Pro Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo this week announced their support of a new email security initiative called DMARC that they say will lessen the impact of so-called "phishing" attacks. The firms are joining various financial services companies to promote a ... Facebook, Google, other firms team to fight email phishing scamsLos Angeles Times Web giants take on phishing in quest to make the Internet betterGigaOm PayPal, Yahoo, Google, Others Declare War On Spam And E-mail FraudBusiness Insider Yahoo!7 News -Digit -CNET Australia all 93 news articles »

Windows IT Pro (blog)

Will DMARC Stop Spam and Improve Email Security? Windows IT Pro (blog) While we can all agree that email spam is a troublesome problem, the real threat lies in the risk that email spam presents when combined with more nefarious elements, such as malware distribution and phishing attempts. Stemming the flood of potentially ... New Industry Alliance Targets Phishing And SpamInformationWeek Google, Facebook fight phishing with new specificationITWorld Canada all 12 news articles »

Norman Enhances Email Security Protection Solution MarketWatch (press release) 18, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Norman ASA, a leading network security company, announced today that Norman Email Protection (NEP) 5.1, a high performance email security solution available as a product or a service, is now available with ... and more »

Webroot Exiting Email Security, Archiving Channelnomics (blog) Webroot, the company originally founded to combat spyware, is getting out of the email security business. The company is choosing instead to focus on endpoint anti-malware software and compete against the likes of Symantec, McAfee and Trend Micro. and more »

Websense to Present at Upcoming Investor Conferences PR Newswire (press release) 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Websense, Inc. (NASDAQ: WBSN), a global leader in unified web security, data security, and email security solutions, today announced management participation in investor conferences during the first quarter of 2012. and more »

Phishing pays off for email security providers Financial Times By Joseph Menn in San Francisco Big financial institutions and other companies are finally succeeding in reducing the volume of emails sent by malicious actors who disguise messages so that they appear to come from a trusted brand, a key technique both ...

Websense to Present at Upcoming Investor Conferences MarketWatch (press release) 2, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Websense, Inc. /quotes/zigman/82174/quotes/nls/wbsn WBSN +1.98% , a global leader in unified web security, data security, and email security solutions, today announced management participation in investor conferences ... and more »

New drive-by email attacks bring attachment-free infections Geek Email security firm eleven has spotted attacks that only require a victim to open the email message itself. Heck, if a user has the preview pane enabled they don't even need to open the message — they just have to single-click the subject.

Cisco Warns of Vulnerability in Security Appliances eSecurity Planet Cisco recently warned of a security flaw in its IronPort Email Security Appliances and IronPort Security Management Appliances. "The vulnerability could be exploited by an attacker to remotely execute code on a system by sending a specially crafted ...

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Making Email Better Security Virus Protection

Did you know that when you send your email messages, they do not go directly to recipient mailboxes Did you know that your Internet Service Provider (ISP) stores copies of all your email messages on its mail servers before it tries to deliver them

A basic forged return address takes about ten seconds of work, and no technical skills above using a mouse and keyboard.

To forge a return address, you only need to change the email address in the settings in your email client. The next message you send will have the forged return address.

An expert can look through a the technical information in the email headers and can find inconsistencies showing the email is fake.

Digital certificates are a solution to this problem. There are two popular standards you can use at no cost: SMIME digital certificates, and PGP.

OpenPGP is a standard for secure email messaging. OpenPGP messages offer sender authentication using digital signatures and can be encrypted using public key cryptography to protect privacy. Since OpenPGP builds on and extends MIME,

OpenPGP messages inter-operate well with any standard-compliant email client, even if it does not support OpenPGP natively. OpenPGP messages also work well with HTML formatting and attachments, where old-style ASCII-armored PGP messages failed.

Windows IT Pro (blog)

Will DMARC Stop Spam and Improve Email Security? Windows IT Pro (blog) While we can all agree that email spam is a troublesome problem, the real threat lies in the risk that email spam presents when combined with more nefarious elements, such as malware distribution and phishing attempts. Stemming the flood of potentially ... Facebook, Google, other firms team to fight email phishing scamsLos Angeles Times Technology firms create DMarc to fight phishingBBC News New Industry Alliance Targets Phishing And SpamInformationWeek ITWorld Canada -Business Insider -Yahoo!7 News all 83 news articles »

The Hindu

Google, Facebook, Bank Of America Behind New Email Security Standard Dark Reading New specification for preventing phishing and email domain abuse likely to help email security, but will enterprises adopt it? By Kelly Jackson Higgins Google, Microsoft, Facebook, the Bank of America, and PayPal are among a group of 15 companies that ... AGARI Advances 'Fixing Email' With New DMARC Programs: "DMARC for Hackers" and ...MarketWatch (press release) Web giants take on phishing in quest to make the Internet betterGigaOm Google, Facebook, PayPal and Microsoft join forces to fight phishingEconsultancy (blog) InformationWeek -eWeek all 586 news articles »

Norman Enhances Email Security Protection Solution MarketWatch (press release) 18, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Norman ASA, a leading network security company, announced today that Norman Email Protection (NEP) 5.1, a high performance email security solution available as a product or a service, is now available with ... and more »

Webroot Exiting Email Security, Archiving Channelnomics (blog) Webroot, the company originally founded to combat spyware, is getting out of the email security business. The company is choosing instead to focus on endpoint anti-malware software and compete against the likes of Symantec, McAfee and Trend Micro. and more »

Cisco Warns of Vulnerability in Security Appliances eSecurity Planet Cisco recently warned of a security flaw in its IronPort Email Security Appliances and IronPort Security Management Appliances. "The vulnerability could be exploited by an attacker to remotely execute code on a system by sending a specially crafted ...

Phishing pays off for email security providers Financial Times By Joseph Menn in San Francisco Big financial institutions and other companies are finally succeeding in reducing the volume of emails sent by malicious actors who disguise messages so that they appear to come from a trusted brand, a key technique both ...

TheHostingNews.com (press release)

SpamExperts and Hostnet Partner TheHostingNews.com (press release) (The Hosting News) - SpamExperts, the leading provider of email security, and Hostnet, the largest provider of hosting and domain name services in the Netherlands, will start the fight against spam together. Today, this partnership has been officially ...

Et tu, Bay Street? RIM's once-loyal customer base starts turning to Apple Open File (blog) BlackBerry email security was traditionally regarded as among the best, so investors and lawyers used it to protect client data. According to the Globe and Mail, that time has passed: The betrayal of the BlackBerry often starts by turning to a spouse's ... and more »

M86 Security Raises $13.6M socalTech.com Details on the funding have not been announced by the company. M86 Security's tools are used by companies, schools, and others to detect malware, prevent data loss, restrict web access, and for other web and email security management.

Vircom Releases Preliminary Results from Spam Survey SBWire (press release) Montréal, Québec -- (SBWIRE) -- 01/27/2012 -- VircomInc, a leader in email security has just released its preliminary findings from an ongoing spam survey. The survey is open to the public and relates to how users protect themselves against spam and ... and more »

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