Email Spoofing/Email Security

[Sky-Knight]

I bet if you check the email address at https://haveibeenpwned.com/ you will find it has been breached and sold to everyone and their grandmother.

Honestly, I find this service useless. I consider every email compromised, that's why we have 2 factor and password managers.

 

[Porthos]

Honestly, I find this service useless. I consider every email compromised, that's why we have 2 factor and password managers.

It at least explains at least some the spam emails. 2 factor only secures the account(good thing) but the test shows why they get most of the spam.

 

[Sky-Knight]

It at least explains at least some the spam emails. 2 factor only secures the account(good thing) but the test shows why they get most of the spam.

Yeah, but the scrapers get new addresses within days of them being deployed, it's not like you can keep the addresses away from them.

 

[G8racingfool]

Honestly, I find this service useless. I consider every email compromised, that's why we have 2 factor and password managers.

For users receiving email spam I agree. But when you can tell a client "hey, 3 people in your organization have had their info come up from XYZ breach, here's the info that may be compromised" and watch their face light up because you're the amazeballs guru who can figure that out it's not so useless. Double-plus when you don't have to go trudging through breaches to find the stuff yourself.

 

[Sky-Knight]

For users receiving email spam I agree. But when you can tell a client "hey, 3 people in your organization have had their info come up from XYZ breach, here's the info that may be compromised" and watch their face light up because you're the amazeballs guru who can figure that out it's not so useless. Double-plus when you don't have to go trudging through breaches to find the stuff yourself.

Hmm... that's fair... I hadn't considered using it as a sales tool. I really am a terrible businessman... I fix junk, and throw away things that don't provide new information. But warning business owners, yeah I can see the value in that.

 

[Markverhyden]

Honestly, I find this service useless. I consider every email compromised, that's why we have 2 factor and password managers.

It's not useless for educating customers. Of course, most the time, it goes in one ear, I mean eye, and out the other.