The BEC List: Helping Thwart Business Email Compromise through Collaboration

Today, the Messaging, Malware and Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group M3AAWG gave the JD Falk Award to the Business Email Compromise BEC List. The BEC List comprises cybersecurity firms, researchers and internet infrastructure companies that help deal with cybercriminal activities and schemes. The JD...

Google to Warn Recipients of Unencrypted Gmail Messages

Google always seems to be busy fortifying Gmail–the latest steps by the company resolve to bolster message encryption and deter attackers from censoring or altering messages before they’re delivered to users. The company announced last week it would begin rolling out warnings in the coming months...

M3AAWG Recommends New DKIM Best Practices

The Messaging, Malware and Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group on Tuesday recommended businesses replace 512- and 768-bit verification keys with 1024-bit or higher encryption to counter a current vulnerability that allows the shorter keys to be cracked within 72 hours using cheap cloud-based services...