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Phishing education eludes Net users; Can reverse DNS zap phishers and spam?

Phishing education eludes Net users; Can reverse DNS zap phishers and spam?SenderID and SPF works a lot better since not everyone controls their ownSenderID and SPF works a lot better since not everyone controls their own reverse DNS. Setting up a regular forward DNS is trivial; setting up reverse...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, E-mail, DomainKeys, rDNS, reverse-DNS, phishing, Phishing Education, SPF

Discussion threads 2007-10-10

Phishing education eludes Net users; Can reverse DNS zap phishers and spam?

Two stories in one here trying to economize. If you haven't noticed, I'm on one of my anti-spam kicks again. Last week, I published a video asking Google, AOL, Microsoft, and Yahoo! (GAMY!) to once and for all to set aside their differences, decide on some standard...

Tags: Education, Technique, Internet User, DNS, RFC, Server, Video, Domain Name, Phishing Education, GAMY, rDNS, E-mail, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Domain Names, Viruses And Worms, Security, Online Communications, Spam And Phishing, Internet, David Berlind

Blog posts 2007-10-09

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Why spam can only be managed, not ended

Years ago when I was still a bit more naive, I thought we could end the spam dilemma if we would simply implement domain-level sender authentication using digital signatures.  In fact when David Berlind wrote  "Why spam could destroy the Internet" in November 2002, Berlind quoted me saying that every...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Difference, Bottom Line, E-mail, Cyberthreats, Spam, Online Communications, Security, Spam And Phishing, George Ou

Blog posts 2007-10-26

Storm Worm variant ignites e-mail virus activity

Storm Worm variant ignites e-mail virus activityStorm Worm variant ignites e-mail virus activityMore hype over nothing. Keep spreading the FUD ZDNet. Look, this threat is minimal at best. Corporations strip out the zip files from emails as well as other files with given extensions. Home users have...

Tags: Cyberthreats, SECURITY, Viruses and worms, Patches, AVG, e-mail, virus, e-mail virus, e-mail virus activity, Storm Worm variant

Discussion threads 2007-04-13

dToolz 1.02 (Windows)

dToolz is an advanced Windows software program with a variety of features relating to domain verification and DNS resolving. It includes a Domain MX verifier, a RDNS checker and a Catch-all verifier. The Domain MX verifier will perform MX lookups on the domains in a list to determine which domains...

Tags: Domain, Northworks Solutions, dToolz, Microsoft Windows, E-mail, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications

Software downloads 2006-07-08

Security clean up--it's now or never

Security clean up--it's now or nevergovernment intervention...Should be fought wholeheartedly when it comes to the internet.... The net has been, and always will be a free medium for ideas to be shared, agreeable or notso. However if we allow gov's to intefere, even in something like declairing security criteria, we...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Corp., gov, security, software, government, Internet

Discussion threads 2003-12-05