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Email Fraud: How Top Companies Put Others at Risk
Email fraud: Danger from leading German companies

The majority of leading German companies lack basic email security precautions. This poses a danger for customers, partners and employees, as they could quickly become victims. Proofpoint, Inc. today published a new study on the topic of email security for German companies. It shows that 65 percent of the 40 largest German companies do not actively protect their employees, customers and partners from email fraud. This is the result of an analysis of the level of implementation of Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC) among DAX40 companies. Lack of protection through DMARC sender authentication DMARC is...

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DMARC exposes fake emails
Mail attack spam virus

The DMARC mechanism checks the domain of the real sender of an email and can thus expose fake emails. Kaspersky experts have eliminated the disadvantages of Domain-based Message Authentication Reporting and Conformance (DMARC) with newly developed technology. Throughout the history of email, people have come up with many technologies to protect recipients from fraudulent emails (mainly phishing). DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) and Sender Policy Framework (SPF) had significant disadvantages, so the Domain-based Message Authentication Reporting and Conformance (DMARC) mail authentication mechanism was developed to allow messages with a fake sender domain.

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