
Email Filtering Misunderstandings: 6 Ways Rules Fail
Email filters misclassify legitimate traffic by design, creating blind spots that attackers exploit through slow, low-volume campaigns rather than obvious spam blasts.
Everything DataSafe Times has reported about email security: 4 stories, newest first. Part of our Cyber Attacks coverage.

Email filters misclassify legitimate traffic by design, creating blind spots that attackers exploit through slow, low-volume campaigns rather than obvious spam blasts.

Phishing simulations measure human error rates to prove that technical controls like DKIM and DMARC cannot stop every attack vector targeting user judgment.

DKIM signs only the content and headers at the moment of sending, meaning any later modification by intermediaries breaks the signature and invalidates the trust chain.

The root cause of most email leaks is not weak security software but human pattern recognition failing under cognitive load and interface ambiguity.