eMail ID – eMail Made Better

I get non-personal emails because I want to get them.  I sign up for newsletters and coupons; I buy stuff and get the receipt and shipping data.  My inbox is full of stuff I signed up for.  When I find an email from a sender that interests me, I want it to be from that sender.   This is my inbox this morning:   What do I care about?  After I read all this stuff, I see an email from the President, 50% off at eBay and PayPal approved me for something.   Here’s what my inbox looks like with eMail ID: [...]

2017-01-07T17:35:28-05:00February 28th, 2011|Consumers and Email, Iconix Truemark Service|

Phishing – The New Spying

You may remember reports of a spies infiltrating U.S. government computers using phishing email pretending to be from President Obama.  The U.S. is not alone in suffering from these high-tech espionage methods. Reports out of Canada tell of another carefully crafted phishing scheme which compromised Canadian government computers.  The attack, which appeared to originate from China, involved the hackers posing as senior bureaucrats sending email to technical staffers.  The technical staffers were fooled into giving the fake officials key passwords, thereby allowing unauthorized network access.  At the same time, the bad guys sent other staffers emails with seemingly innocuous attachments; [...]

2017-01-07T17:35:28-05:00February 19th, 2011|Consumers and Email, Iconix Truemark Service, Phishing|

Phishing Up 14%

Today, IID released its Q4 2010 eCrime Trends Report.  According to IID, phishing increased in Q4 2010 increased 14% over Q4 2009.  Of particular note was the increase of phishing in the gaming sector – phishing increased 489%!  IID suggests that the high value of virtual gaming goods which are controlled by consumers makes the phishing of gamers particularly lucrative for cybercriminals.  This is IID’s breakdown of phishing attacks by target industry:   The IID report discussed the launch of the “Stop. Think. Connect.” public awareness campaign of the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) in partnership with the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG).  [...]

2017-01-07T17:35:28-05:00February 10th, 2011|Consumers and Email, Iconix Truemark Service, Phishing|

Goodmail – Goodbye

Goodmail Systems has announced that it is ceasing operations.  Goodmail provides an email deliverability solution that also has an email marking component. Their business offers a three-part solution – An accreditation service in which the email sender is certified by Goodmail using standards determined by Goodmail, with agreement by email services such as AOL and Yahoo! that accredited email will be delivered. An authentication mechanism to verify that messages from Goodmail customers are legitimate.  Inbox marking in which messages from Goodmail customers are identified with a Goodmail mark in the inbox. The fundamental value provided by Goodmail is the first step in this process [...]

2017-01-07T17:35:28-05:00February 3rd, 2011|Consumers and Email, Iconix Truemark Service, Phishing|