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How Nidhi Razdan Could’ve Saved Herself from the Phishing Attacks

SendX

The recent case of a phishing attack on Nidhi Razdan is an eye-opener! She recently disclosed on Twitter that she has been a victim of a sophisticated phishing attack. With the benefit of hindsight that we all have now, let's educate ourselves on how to not be a victim of phishing attacks. What is phishing?

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Protect Your Brand From Phishing Emails This Thanksgiving, Black Friday, & Cyber Monday

Martech Advisor

But email frauds like phishing emails, too, have risen over the past few years putting customers at risk and brand identity at stake. So how can brands tackle phishing emails this Thanksgiving, Black Friday, and Cyber Monday? This makes the phish harder to detect among the flood of legitimate marketing emails.

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Make It to the Inbox With Litmus Spam Testing

Litmus

Also called domain authentication or validation, email authentication helps prevent spoofing and phishing scams (like emails meant to look like they come from Amazon or your bank—but don’t). Shows that your email is associated with your domain. Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance (DMARC).

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Keep Your Inbox Clean From Coronavirus Phishing Scams

Belkins

It’s phishing. Fear-mongering is a common practice among phishers, so they’ll never miss a chance to contribute to the overall nervousness and anxiety for their own good. We’re here for you, to show you the new types of phishing emails that abuse the subject of coronavirus and can potentially endanger your inbox.

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The New Email Deliverability Rules: How to Make Sure You Reach Your Gmail and Yahoo Subscribers

Litmus

Google and Yahoo partnered in this effort to reduce the risk of phishing, spam, and malware. Email authentication helps ensure that an email sent from your domain is legitimate and not a spoofing attack. That shouldn’t stop you from adopting the best practices above ahead of the deadline.

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Email marketing strategy: A marketer’s guide

Martech

For starters, there’s the Domain Name System (DNS), known as the phonebook of the internet. The DNS maps a domain name to the IP address hosting the website and the IP sending mail for a particular entity with a different domain name. Another authentication protocol is DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM).

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Optimize your Email Deliverability: Technology

Heinz Marketing

What I learned is though it’s important to get your tools and domain set up correctly – it’s really a fairly small facet in ensuring your emails are being delivered. The techie stuff There are several things you need to set up around domain authentication and sender reputation in order to send an email in the first place.