Email spoofing is a type of cyber attack where fraudsters forge the sender address on an email to make it appear as if it came from a trusted source. This deception tricks recipients into believing ...

As phishing attempts grow more advanced, so do the efforts to imitate real organizations, which make it easier to trick unsuspecting recipients into divulging valuable information or assets. A common ...

These email security protocols will help cut down on malicious emails from spoofed addresses. Setting them up is easier than you think. If you are not using global email security standards SPF, DKIM ...

Over the years, scammers have become very inventive in their efforts to swindle you out of your money, privacy, security and sanity. They have pretended to be everything from your family, friends, ...

Spoofing is when someone forges the email address of the sender—the address that appears in the ‘From:’ field—to make it look like it’s being sent by someone else. Spoofing relies on exploiting the ...

In a recent email fraud incident, employees in the finance department of a clinical trial software firm based in New York City were conned into wiring $4.8 million to an offshore bank account to ...

In an attempt to block email spoofing attacks on yahoo.com addresses, Yahoo began imposing a stricter email validation policy that unfortunately breaks the usual workflow on legitimate mailing lists.

Most of us have heard of, or unfortunately had, viruses on our computer at some point in our lives. An email spoof is a little more inconspicuous but still prominent in the world of computing. The ...

The City of Troy posted a warning on its social media page that it received reports of emails impersonating city employees. They said that “spoofing” scams trick people, “by looking like they come ...

The vast majority of the 2020 presidential candidates aren’t taking advantage of a basic email security tool that could help prevent phishing attacks, industry researchers found. Only three of the 24 ...

Last Friday, I started getting bounced messages from compuserve and other hosts for emails I had never sent. Some investigation showed that a spammer (who I will refer to as Tiny, his first email was ...