As phishing attempts grow more advanced, so do the efforts to imitate real organizations, which make it easier to trick unsuspecting recipients into divulging valuable information or assets. A common ...

Spoofing is when someone forges the email address of the sender—the address that appears in the ‘From:’ field—to make it look like it’s being sent by someone else. Spoofing relies on exploiting the ...

Bengaluru City Police busted a cybercrime operation involving international email spoofing, recovering Rs 2.16 crore ...

In a recent email fraud incident, employees in the finance department of a clinical trial software firm based in New York City were conned into wiring $4.8 million to an offshore bank account to ...

The City of Troy posted a warning on its social media page that it received reports of emails impersonating city employees. They said that “spoofing” scams trick people, “by looking like they come ...

Email spoofing is forging email so it looks like it came from someone it didn’t. I learned to spoof email in the fall of 1993 during my sophomore year at Northwestern. An upperclassman in my dorm ...

Security researchers have found inconsistencies in how some Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) servers handle end-of-data sequences. This allows the injection of SMTP commands into email messages in ...

Over the years, scammers have become very inventive in their efforts to swindle you out of your money, privacy, security and sanity. They have pretended to be everything from your family, friends, ...

In an attempt to block email spoofing attacks on yahoo.com addresses, Yahoo began imposing a stricter email validation policy that unfortunately breaks the usual workflow on legitimate mailing lists.

Last Friday, I started getting bounced messages from compuserve and other hosts for emails I had never sent. Some investigation showed that a spammer (who I will refer to as Tiny, his first email was ...