Email Security Issues, Tools, and Techniques Used in Investigation

E Altulaihan, A Alismail, MM Hafizur Rahman… - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
The email system is a globally distributed communication infrastructure service that involves
multiple actors playing different roles to ensure end-to-end mail delivery. It is an …

Lazy gatekeepers: a large-scale study on SPF configuration in the wild

S Czybik, M Horlboge, K Rieck - Proceedings of the 2023 ACM on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The Sender Policy Framework (SPF) is a basic mechanism for authorizing the use of
domains in email. In combination with other mechanisms, it serves as a cornerstone for …

Understanding the viability of gmail's origin indicator for identifying the sender

E Liu, L Sun, A Bellon, G Ho, GM Voelker… - … Symposium on Usable …, 2023 - usenix.org
The current design of email authentication mechanisms has made it challenging for email
providers to establish the authenticity of email messages with complicated provenance, such …

Unfiltered: Measuring Cloud-based Email Filtering Bypasses

S Rao, E Liu, G Ho, GM Voelker, S Savage - Proceedings of the ACM on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Email service has increasingly been outsourced to cloud-based providers and so too has
the task of filtering such messages for potential threats. Thus, customers will commonly …