We are often asked by our users to help them determine from where an email message has originated. “Where did this spam come from?” In general, it is fairly easy to do this if you have access to the “headers” of the message. In this post, we will show you how to determine a message’s […]
We have just completed a long series of articles discussing how attackers forge email messages and what technologies and techniques can be used to counter these attacks. See: Email Identity and Forged Email. In this post, we will discuss some best practices when using LuxSci to maximize your protection against forged email messages.
In previous posts we have examined how hackers and spammers can send forged email and how it can be extremely difficult to differentiate these messages from legitimate messages. We have looked at the various common techniques for anti-fraud such as SPF, DKIM, and DMARC and seen that, while these technologies can help a lot, they all have limitations; they all […]
In our previous posting, we looked at exactly how Spammers and hackers can send forged email — how its is possible and how it is done. Therein, we gave an example how one could send an email forged to be from Bank of America. In this post, we will look at that forged Bank of America […]
Everyone has seen spam messages arrive with a “From” address that is your own address, a colleague’s, a friends, or that of some company that you work with or use. These From addresses are forged to help the messages (a) get by your spam filters, and (b) get by your “eyeball filters”. But how are […]
