45th General Meeting
February 18, 2019 to February 21, 2019
The Messaging, Malware and Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group (M3AAWG) is where the industry comes together to work against bots, malware, spam, viruses, DoS attacks and other online exploitation.
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Dave Piscitello Receives 2019 M3AAWG Mary Litynski Award“With his persistent and unswerving outreach, Dave was eventually able to push the industry to address domain name system abuse to the point that preventive measures have become an ongoing discussion area within the ICANN community,” and he has continued to contribute to anti-abuse work for decades, said Severin Walker, M3AAWG Chairman of the Board.
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1st Japan Anti-Abuse Working Group General MeetingThe 1st JPAAWG General Meeting on November 8 will cover topics such as DMARC, identity and data protection, how to protect against spam, and the global threat outlook. JPAAWG is an independent regional offshot of M3AAWG.
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M3AAWG Teams Up with CalConnect on Work to Block Fake Calendar EventsThe organizations are working together to fight a new type of abuse that takes advantage of the application layer across multiple technologies, including scheduling, calendaring and messaging systems.
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New APWG-M3AAWG GDPR and WHOIS User Study Looks at Access IssuesStudy shows that ICANN’s Temp Spec for domain name WHOIS data access has impeded efforts to mitigate cybercrime and includes recommendations to provide access that would help anti-abuse efforts.
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M3AAWG collaboration leads to new IETF ID message header specification to fight web-form sign-up attacksNew M3AAWG paper explains recommendations to identify messages originating as verification emails from a web-form, such as a subscription confirmation email, and help protect against high-volume attacks.
