[kwlug-disc] OT: Hotmail/Yahoo account breakins

Kyle Spaans 3lucid at gmail.com
Thu Feb 28 05:10:50 EST 2013


2013/2/28 Bob Jonkman <bjonkman at sobac.com>:
> I agree. The new flavour of spam all have the "sender's"[1] name in the
> subject line, they all originate from Yahoo mail servers (which are also
> used by @rogers.com), and they're all signed as authentic by DKIM. Or
> maybe that's DMARC... What was the point of signing headers again?

I haven't seen any. :P Google's GMail signs email with DKIM. Yet I
once spoofed a friend's gmail address when sending him mail (so it
looked like he sent himself mail), and gmail didn't complain at all.




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