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Phishing – Costco Connection Article

The October 2010 edition of “The Costco Connection” references the article “Cyber security” on the cover. (http://www.costcoconnection.com/connection/201010#pg29) When I turned to the article, I found it was all about phishing. As you probably know if you follow Iconix, phishing is on-line fraud which is perpetrated by the impersonation of legitimate email senders. Highlighted in the center of the article was this guidance from Peter Cassidy, secretary general of the Anti-Phishing Working Group: This is not a technical issue; it all happens between your ears. The point he is making is that in phishing fraud, the criminal is not using [...]

iconixtruemark2017-01-07T17:35:29-05:00October 7th, 2010|Consumers and Email, Iconix Truemark Service, Phishing|

Iconix Issued Fourth U.S. Patent for Email

ICONIX, Inc., the industry leader in visual email solutions, announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued Iconix's fourth patent titled "E-MAIL MESSAGE AUTHENTICATION AND MARKING EXTENDING STANDARDS COMPLAINT TECHNIQUES." The abstract for U.S. Patent 7,801,961, dated September 21, 2010, states: "A system and method for e-mail authentication. The method includes aggregating a plurality of headers associated with an e-mail message and transmitting the aggregated plurality of headers to a validation service. A validation response is then received from the validation service. The e-mail is authenticated based on the validation response." Iconix filed the patent on May [...]

iconixtruemark2017-01-07T17:35:29-05:00October 1st, 2010|Email Authentication, Phishing|

It’s Baaack… Or Maybe It Never Left

Earlier this year there were stories based on IBM’s midyear X-Force Threat Report with headlines such as “Phishing Drops,” “Is Phishing Finally on the Decline?,” and “Phishing Dries Up as Users Get Smarter.” The sound bites left the impression that the problem was all but solved and that scammers had moved on to other methods. But this clearly isn’t the case, as noted by the Anti-Phishing Working Group’s Phishing Threat Trends Report for the first half of 2009. They found that the number of consumer-reported phishing attacks in May (37,165) was 7% higher than last year’s peak, and that the [...]

iconixtruemark2017-01-07T17:35:30-05:00October 9th, 2009|Iconix Truemark Service, Phishing|