On Jun 9, 2014, at 10:44 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull step...@xemacs.org wrote:
spoofing of AOL addresses ballooned to about 5X the volume preceding
the attack, and presumably all of the new spoof messages were targeted
to acquaintences since the attackers are known to have obtained
Larry Finch writes:
DMARC helped briefly, but spammers and phishers have already found
ways to defeat it. I have seen a surge in AOL-based phishing this
week. They simply use the AOL screen name in the comment in the
FROM field with a non-AOL address. As most mail clients don't
display
It's now about 2 months since Yahoo introduced their DMARC reject policy. I'm
taking this as a sign that it's unlikely that they'll ever reverse the decision
Has anyone heard anything that might indicate otherwise? Or that any mailbox
providers other than Yahoo and AOL have started doing it, or
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Sent: Tuesday, 10 June 2014 12:44 PM
To: Peter Shute
Cc: 'mailman-users@python.org'
Subject: [Mailman-Users] Yahoo - what chance of change now?
Peter Shute writes:
It's now about 2 months since Yahoo introduced their DMARC
reject policy. I'm taking this as a sign that it's
Peter Shute writes:
It's now about 2 months since Yahoo introduced their DMARC reject
policy. I'm taking this as a sign that it's unlikely that they'll
ever reverse the decision
On the DMARC list at IETF, a senior Yahoo! sysadmin said that because
the attack based on stolen address book
Peter Shute writes:
I'm interested to know what's in store because our current tactic
is to reject new Yahoo and AOL subscribers, encourage existing ones
to get new addresses, and to forward their messages by hand. This
is obviously not going to work if other providers gradually start
