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Attributed metadata history

REPORTPUBLIC METADATA

Email (in)security

Sending emails relies mainly on SMTP, the Simple Mail Transfert Protocol. This protocol is actually quite old: the first traces date back from the 70’s, and the first standardisation took place in 1982 (RFC 821). It is primarily a very simple and insecure protocol, although multiple additional protocols have developed to protect emails and avoid SPAM. In this blog post we review these different protection mechanisms.

Reference details

Source category
research-report
First reported
Nov 02, 2020 16:28 UTC
Last reported
Nov 02, 2020 16:28 UTC
Catalog updated
Oct 16, 2026 21:25 UTC
Record ID
0e929d175a46bb2cae08fee834157deded69c6d57a55eb326dc3bed1b28a1e70

Published indicators

Network indicators are visibly defanged. This page does not make them clickable or send them to another service.

No validated file hashes or network indicators are stored for this record.

Source observations

intelligence_src_1e8b29b080e9bfdebf

Source-provided label
Publisher RSS metadata
Evidence class
mentioned in report
Confidence
Not reported
Observed
Nov 02, 2020 16:28 UTC
Retrieved
Oct 16, 2026 21:25 UTC

This record contains metadata and attribution only. It does not host, download, unpack, render, or execute malware samples.

Feed collection status

Sources represented on this page. Publication and observation dates describe the content; successful batch dates describe local collection. A recent batch does not certify complete coverage or current provider availability.

1 sources: 0 stale, 0 needing attention, 0 paused, 0 unverified.

Review source update dates and status
  • intelligence_src_1e8b29b080e9bfdebfRecent successful batchLast successful batch: Last attempt:

Stale means older than twice the recorded collection interval, with a minimum of one hour; without an interval, the threshold is 24 hours. Cached content remains available while a feed is stale, paused, or unverified.