44th General Meeting
October 08, 2018 to October 11, 2018
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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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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Dave Rand Honored for Lifetime Work Protecting Online UsersCo-founder of the first ISP to ban junk mail and MAPS co-founder, Dave Rand received the 2018 M3AAWG Mary Litysnki Award from Dr. Paul Vixie of Farsight Security, Inc. and M3AAWG Chairman of the Board Severin Walker (left to right) on February 20, 2018 at the M3AAWG 42nd General Meeting. (Photo by Franck Martin.)
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U.S. Homeland Security Adopts Anti-Abuse TechnologiesOver two-thirds of agencies have taken critical steps to enhance email security, says DHS assistant secretary for the Office of Cybersecurity and Communications. Steps include implementing STARTTLS, DMARC, SPF, DKIM and HTTP Strict Transport Security.
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LAC-AAWG to address local and global issues as voice of anti-abuse work in the regionNew working group combines knowledge and expertise from LACNIC, LACNOG and M3AAWG as a self-sustaining regional anti-abuse community.
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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.
