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Google, Microsoft and others putting kibosh on phishing emails |
February 06, 2013
A year after Google, Microsoft and other email heavyweights launched the DMARC program to filter out spoofed email that attackers use for phishing, they say an estimated 60 percent of the world's email boxes are now safe.
"This empowers mailbox providers to take definitive actions on fraudulent mail," says Trent Adams, senior adviser of ecosystem security at PayPal information risk management, part of DMARC supporter eBay. "This has shut down entire avenues that lead to widespread email fraud. It's a lot like an inoculation."
Of the 325 million spoofed messages blocked during the last two months of 2012 via the DMARC process, 49 million were targeted for "highly phished domains, like PayPal and Facebook," Adams says. Blocking those phishing messages before they hit email recipients "from a PayPal perspective, that protection is golden," he says.
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Link: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/020613-dmarc-266441.html
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