‘Mailsploit’ Lets Hackers Forge Perfect Email Spoofs
‘Mailsploit’ Lets Hackers Forge Perfect Email Spoofs
Security, Spoken · SpokenLayer
December 7, 20177m 52s
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Show Notes
Pretending to be someone you're not in an email has never been quite hard enough—hence phishing, that eternal scourge of internet security. But now one researcher has dug up a new collection of bugs in email programs that in many cases strip away even the existing, imperfect protections against email impersonation, allowing anyone to undetectably spoof a message with no hint at all to the recipient.
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