Google has just announced a change to the display by Gmail of the sender icon/picture for unauthenticated senders.

Back in July I wrote an article (Going phishing for whales? A cautionary tale (tail!)) that gave a real-world example of a company that had suffered financial loss through a successful whaling/phishing email thread.

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Puns aside, we have all become accustomed to receiving emails asking us for assistance to release the millions of dollars stashed away by various princes or ex-members of parliament, the so-called 419 scams. But in the last year or so there has been an interesting twist on this.

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Don’t leave IPv6 configuration to your ISP.

You can afford to be a bit smug reading this blog article. After all, you must have a working IP configuration.

But what about the next colleague to join your organisation, in that new branch office? You can no longer be truly certain that they are going to get those traditional IPv4 addresses you have spent your working life dealing with.

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