Would you send money to help a friend?

I’ve read a several articles about this in the past few weeks. Someone hacks an email account and uses the account’s own contact list to ask ‘friends’ and contacts for money citing some personal tragedy or immediate need. Often these people interact with the contacts using the terminology, phrases, sign off names of their victim [...]

SPF records. The real McCoy

If you’ve never heard of SPF (Sender Policy Framework), don’t worry, you’re probably not an email administrator. SPF was designed as an addition to the email system to prevent sender spoofing. In other words, allowing someone else to send an email pretending they are you.