SAN FRANCISCO, CA — (Marketwired) — 04/04/17 — Addressing current threats such as DDoS attacks and Internet of Things security, the Messaging, Malware and Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group has released five new best practices papers and created new special interest groups to develop cybersecurity approaches that will help protect end-users. The organization also announced its 2017 leadership and committee chairs who are responsible for supporting the group–s ongoing collaborative efforts and
SAN FRANCISCO, CA — (Marketwired) — 05/04/16 — Global Cyber Alliance — an organization founded by the New York County District Attorney–s Office, the City of London Police and the Center for Internet Security — will be collaborating with M3AAWG to push the security community to more quickly adopt concrete, quantifiable practices that can reduce online threats. The non-profit has joined the Messaging, Malware and Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group, which develops anti-abuse best practices ba
SAN FRANCISCO, CA — (Marketwired) — 03/16/16 — The Internet Infrastructure Coalition, i2Coalition, has joined the Messaging, Malware and Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group to continue work on developing best practices for hosting and cloud service companies and to share other information that will protect end-users. Members of the i2Coalition–s new Internet Safety Working Group and its Abuse Reporting Discussion List will be participating in M3AAWG meetings and committee work as the two organi
ATLANTA, GA — (Marketwired) — 10/21/15 — The 15 highly-respected computer scientists and security experts who came together to outline how law enforcement–s proposed requirement for "backdoor" access to all encrypted files would actually make the Internet more vulnerable to crime and deception were recognized for their work today with the M3AAWG 2015 J.D. Falk Award. "Keys Under Doormats: Mandating Insecurity by Requiring Government Access to All Data and Communications"
DUBLIN, IRELAND — (Marketwired) — 06/10/15 — A thoughtful provocateur ready to take on difficult challenges for the good of the Internet and an influential cybersecurity advocate, Rodney Joffe has worked to protect end-users since the 1990s when he fought to contain spam as the first email marketing campaigns were taking hold. In the ensuing years, he has single-handedly crippled text spam, has developed a sophisticated system to protect DNS, and has helped manage the worldwide response to
DUBLIN, IRELAND — (Marketwired) — 06/09/15 — Operation Safety-Net, available today, is a cooperative global effort by industry and government experts outlining the online threats currently facing the world along with the proven best practices to mitigate them. The report was jointly developed by the Messaging, Malware and Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group (M3AAWG) and the London Action Plan (LAP), and describes the latest recommendations to protect users and networks from illicit Internet, mob
BOSTON, MA — (Marketwired) — 10/21/14 — The founder of a far-reaching, volunteer program to identify millions of servers on the Internet with open DNS settings that could be commandeered in DDoS and spoofing attacks was honored with the 2014 J.D. Falk Award at the M3AAWG 32nd General Meeting today in Boston. Jared Mauch received the award from the Messaging, Malware and Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group for three related projects that help prevent vulnerable servers from being used in cyber a
SAN FRANCISCO, CA — (Marketwired) — 10/14/14 — Each month, over 1% percent of unique consumer network subscribers are identified as having some type of malware on their systems with service providers notifying 94 to 99 percent of those users about the problem, according to a report released today from the Messaging, Malware and Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group. The new and its ongoing reporting program is the first industry assessment that is based on data collected directly from service pro
MONTREAL, QC — (Marketwired) — 10/23/13 — In the news release, "UAB-s Gary Warner Receives M3AAWG J.D. Falk Award for Developing Collaborative Cybersecurity Education Program," issued earlier today by M3AAWG, we are advised by the company that the second sentence of the first paragraph should read "the University of Alabama at Birmingham-s Center for Information Assurance" rather than "the University of Alabama-s Center for Information Assurance" as originally i
