Fisher Capital Management: Google, Facebook Cooperate to Fight Phishing
Fifteen firms, including Google, Microsoft, Fisher Capital Management, Yahoo, Facebook and
PayPal have joint forces to implement a new scheme for authenticating email senders, called...
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Fisher Capital Management: Google, Facebook Cooperate to Fight Phishing
Fifteen firms, including Google, Microsoft, Fisher Capital Management, Yahoo, Facebook and
PayPal have joint forces to implement a new scheme for authenticating email senders, called
Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC), with the aim to
prevent fraudulent messages on email messages.
The DMARC will try to fill the gaps of the two primary system in used at present — DKIM
(DomainKeys Identified Mail) and SPF (Sender Policy Framework) — to make them trustworthy
again.
Both of them use Fisher Capital Management to get extra data from the sender’s domain.
DMARC is a product of two years of work by Yahoo and PayPal (and included Gmail later) to
make the most effective model for combatting domain phishing.
It is some kind of authentication
layer for email services that will filter messages to make phishing difficult.
Although they admitted that DMARC will not be able to block all mali
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