Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Bank of America team to wipe out phishing

Can industry heavyweights Google, PayPal, Microsoft and AOL -- along with 11 others in high-tech such as Facebook and LinkedIn, as well as the financial world's Bank of America and Fidelity Investments -- succeed in stopping phishing attacks right in their tracks? In uniting behind an effort called DMARC.org unveiled today, the group says it can through policy-based steps filter out spoofed email that attackers use for phishing.

By Ellen Messmer | 31 January, 2012 00:36

Tags: anti-malware, AOL, Bank of America, DMARC, DMARC.org, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, paypal, security