It is with great sadness that we acknowledge the passing of one of our colleagues in the messaging industry, Jesse David “JD” Falk. JD was a tireless contributor to building a safer Internet. His work at MAAWG, IETF and CAUCE helped make electronic messaging safer for everyone using a computer or phone to communicate. But [...]
Cloudmark DesktopOne has had a good year. It reached over million downloads in over 160 countries, it was nominated for SC Magazine’s Readers Choice Awards, and now it has been hand-picked by the discerning PCMag.com editors as Product of the Year – for the 2nd year straight! Only five products earned 5-star ratings–a rating PCMag.com [...]
Cloudmark CTO Jamie de Guerre was invited to participate in a Cybersecurity Partners Breakfast with Secretary Janet Napolitano at the NASDAQ Headquarters in New York Tuesday, 18 October. The event was invite only and consisted of 25-30 senior executive from organizations such as AT&T, Google, Microsoft, Verizon and others including Cloudmark. The breakfast discussion focused [...]
If you have a smart phone with a QR reader, then you can scan the QR code below and it will prepare a text message with the text “HELP” to send to the short code 7726 (S-P-A-M). If your mobile operator supports reporting text spam to 7726, then you should get back a text that [...]
This week, at the Federal Cybersecurity Conference & Workshop in Baltimore hosted by the Department of Homeland Security, there was a panel on Email Authentication that explained why authenticated email is vital to their interests. Being able to trust email from federal agencies is highly important to them, not merely for communication among agencies but [...]
A few weeks ago we announced that our free consumer anti-spam product Cloudmark DesktopOne was approaching a million downloads and to commemorate this significant product milestone we ran a $500 gift card contest for new and existing customers, with the winner being randomly selected as soon as we reached the millionth download. We reached the [...]
Cloudmark’s drive to equip users with the power to report messages they didn’t sign up for (using the 7726 (S-P-A-M) GSMA service) and protect mobile users from spammy text messages, means that we spend a lot of time thinking about the negative content that gets sent by spammers. So it’s nice to be reminded that [...]
After numerous discussions and spirited debate, the IETF has finally published a couple of important new RFCs related to DKIM. RFC6376 is the update to DKIM itself that does a thorough job cleaning up the original version, and RFC6377 provides recommended practices for using DKIM with respect to mailing lists. With this, DKIM has advanced [...]
An interesting new report* from The Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life project, says that 95% of 18 to 24 year olds own a cell phone, 97% of the cell phone owners use text messaging, and they send an average of 110 text messages per day. That’s a lot of texting they’re doing. People [...]
Don Bailey and Mat Solnik from iSEC partners made a YouTube video showing the use of text messaging to hack into a Subaru Outback to unlock the door and start the engine. This was possible because systems like OnStar and Ford SYNC use text messaging to communicate with the car, via M2M (machine to machine) communication. [...]