Anti-Phishing Working Group and Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group have released a joint paper on best practices for ISPs and Mail Box providers.


Anti-Phishing Working Group and Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group have released a joint paper on best practices for ISPs and Mail Box providers.

Key points of the documet include:

– The nature of phishing attacks

– Inbound protection schemes

— Inbound filtration of phishing messages

— Policy considerations

— End-point or client-side filtration

— Forgery detection with Sender authentication

— Hide images from Untrusted sources

— Disable hyperlinks from untrusted sources

— Visual cues on message legitimacy

– Web traffic filtration

– Outbound protection

– Pharming and DNS cache-poisoning protection

– Phishing-related customer support calls

– ISP-to-Phishing target communications.

LINKS:

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To visit APWG website, click here.

To visit MAAWG website, click here.