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Google, Microsoft, Facebook, LinkedIn, Yahoo team up to fight phishing

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Fifteen leading email service and technology providers including Google, Microsoft AOL, Yahoo, Facebook, LinkedIn, Bank of America, and PayPal announced DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance) that aims to curb the spread of phishing e-mails by making it more difficult for scammers to impersonate legitimate e-mails. The agreement calls for the use of preexisting standards to authenticate messages on a much wider scale than ever before.

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Currently, PayPal is one of the few companies using a similar technologies and blocks around 200,000 emails a day thanks to its existing work with Google and Yahoo's email services, a figure that will likely improve if DMARC is implemented widely.

DMARC Press Release

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