Phishing attacks are on the rise across the globe, and the Down Unders are facing the heat, too! Australia has always been a favorite among cybercriminals. 2023 was no different for the Aussies as multiple brands and businesses fell prey to threat actors. Even though the Australian government is trying its best to protect the…
As of January 16, 2023, the United States led globally in the daily volume of spam emails sent, totaling approximately 8 billion. Czechia and the Netherlands followed closely, ranking second and third with 7.7 billion and 7.6 billion spam emails, respectively. To combat such uncontrollable numbers of phishing and spamming instances, Google and Yahoo rolled…
There’s no doubt that phishing attempts are getting more sophisticated every day, but so is the email authentication infrastructure. In 2021, Kaspersky detected 469 different kinds of ‘phishing kits’ and blocked 1.2 million phishing pages. BIMI is another tool to help protect against phishing attacks. BIMI, or Brand Indicators for Message Identification, is a feather…
Have you ever wondered how mail servers keep track of suspicious domains or IP addresses and prevent their messages from entering your mailbox? With grave cyberattacks like phishing, spoofing, and ransomware being at an all-time high, it is crucial for all the stakeholders in digital communication to prioritize email security. To keep your email ecosystem…
DNS is a foundational component of email security, providing essential mechanisms for authenticating senders, emails routing, and filtering malicious content. The integration of DNS-based protocols enhances the overall trustworthiness and security of email communication. Since email has become a primary mode of communication, with the number of global e-mail users set to grow to 4.73…
DMARC adoption is already on the rise, and its urgency is also being propagated well; however, administrators still lack the proficiency to leverage its best benefits. You need to strategically move from the lenient to strict DMARC policy while maintaining a low rate of false positives and a good sender’s reputation so that most of…
Different email error codes give different messages, and sometimes, their technical language doesn’t make sense to normal people. Google and Yahoo prioritise email protection and authentication; hence, the instances of receiving error messages are higher. That’s why we have curated this guide explaining the reasons for their prompting and ways to fix them. What are…
Did you know that only 1% of Non-profit organizations’ domains have the basic DMARC authentication protection in place? DMARC safeguards the reputation and goodwill of profitable and nonprofitable organizations by shielding their email-sending domains against spoofing and phishing attacks. When a receiver’s mailbox filters an email sent from your domain and labels it as ‘potentially…
ChatGPT has literally revolutionized the digital world. The generative AI tool is capable of churning out content based on pretty much everything that is available under the sun. However, with good comes the bad. And hence, the world is divided into two parts as of now- one that is elated about ChatGPT’s abilities, and the…
When it comes to email authentication, SPF offers different result qualifiers to indicate how the receiving mail server should handle emails that are outside of the list mentioned in the SPF record of the sending domain. These result qualifiers are SoftFail and HardFail. There is no hard-and-fast rule as to which one’s the better choice…
