Archive for August, 2008

Email Adventures: Setting up an SPF Record to Combat Domain Spoofing

Filed Under: research, resources by usha on August 13th, 2008

Our domain got spoofed. The first indication was a ton of auto-responders in the past week that all got delivered to our catch-all email account. Most of these auto-responders were supposedly in response to our emails. But looking at the message header revealed a ton of emails with our domain name but unknown user names. TerimaddoxSilver@appropriateit.org, JennaeconometricGalindo@appropriateit.org, HenriettasuperstitiousLin@appropriateit.org, and so on and so forth. This is just a sample. We had 70+ such unknown users on one single day.

Setting up a Sender Policy Framework (SPF) record is one way to prevent domain spoofing.

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Mobile Web, Digital Divide, and Development

Filed Under: asia, mobile, regions, solutions by usha on August 6th, 2008

PC World has an enlightening article from Kiwanja’s Ken Banks about the growing disconnect between mobile applications envisioned for development and the realities on the ground.

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