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The Cheap Way to Keep Spoofed Email Out of Your Inbox

Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2009 4:18 pm
by Tech Manager
Email spoofing is on the rise. Country IP Blocks estimates that spoofing may account for more than 80% of all spam and malicious email traffic. Email spoofing is defined as the forgery of an email header so that the message has the appearance of originating from a source other than the actual source.

When not using expensive security certificates to prevent spoofing, you can still eliminate spoofing of known email addresses, such as those on a company whitelist, with a highly effective, yet relatively simple filtering technique.

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Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 12:20 pm
by lucifercipher
Very interesting article. Netadmins usually enable reverse lookups and hooking up their servers with spam reporters to avoid incoming SPAM.