45 Percent of Federal Email Domains Miss Security Deadline

Nextgov: Just under half of federal email domains missed a Homeland Security Department deadline this weekend to install a new anti-spoofing email security tool, according to a tally maintained by an email security firm.

Among the laggards are 85 percent of Homeland Security’s own email domains, according to ValiMail data provided to Nextgov.  

As of the Monday deadline, just under 55 percent of federal email domains had installed the tool called DMARC, according to ValiMail figures. The tool makes it much tougher for hackers to target federal employees using phony email addresses or to use phony government emails to target U.S. citizens.

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