News Archive

	Mar 21, 2023	ANNOUNCE: KAM Ruleset Turning PCCC Wild RBL Back On The Foundation is pleased to announce that users of the KAM ruleset will once again have the free use of the PCCC Wild RBL. The RBL was previously removed from use due to its popularity. Thanks go to Linode.com for donating the servers and as always thanks to PCCC for the datafeed. The ... Read More
	Sep 01, 2021	Do we Need to Prove Phishing Works? At the McGrail Foundation, we believe that education is the best way to help users safer in a world of scams not testing users with fake phishes. For example, in September 2020, the Chicago Tribune wanted to test its cyber defenses by phishing their employees. The only problem? The phishing email ... Read More
	Aug 27, 2021	MIMEDefang Releases Version 2.85 MIMEDefang is a highly flexible and configurable email filter program that was originally written by Roaring Penguin and Dianne F. Skoll. It is maintained by the McGrail Foundation. With the release of MIMEDefang version 2.85 this week, we wanted to produce a quick start. More can be found ... Read More
	May 19, 2021	Contribute at No Cost with Amazon Smile Want to help make a difference while you shop in the Amazon app, at no extra cost to you? Simply follow the instructions below to select "McGrail Foundation" as your charity and activate AmazonSmile in the app. They'll donate a portion of your eligible mobile app purchases to us. How it works: ... Read More
	Dec 28, 2020	Sponsor Spotlight: runbox The McGrail Foundation is proud to announce that runbox has become a sponsor of supporting the KAM.cf Apache SpamAssassin ruleset that helps protect so many people every day. Below is a note from the managing Director, project manager, and developer at runbox: Geir Thomas Andersen: ... Read More
	Nov 26, 2020	Announcing the Apache SpamAssassin Channel for the KAM ... Happy Thanksgiving, The McGrail Foundation is proud to announce the immediate availability of the channel for the KAM rule set. The rule set has been free and available to improve Apache SpamAssassin installations for going on 17 years now. It includes rules for common spam as well as ... Read More
	Oct 28, 2020	McGrail Foundation October Sponsor Spotlight: INKY The McGrail Foundation is proud to announce that INKY has become a sponsor of supporting the KAM.cf Apache SpamAssassin ruleset that helps protect so many people every day. INKY leads the industry in mail protection powered by unique computer vision, artificial intelligence, and machine ... Read More
	Aug 20, 2020	The McGrail Foundation is Seeking Sponsors for Bug ... Bugs are a common problem in all software. Bug bounties are commonly used by companies to prevent exploits by 'bad actors' by paying ethical hackers to discover the bugs to be fixed. Just this year Microsoft paid $13.7m in bug-bounty payouts. The McGrail foundation is seeking to do the reverse ... Read More
	Jul 15, 2020	Apache SpamAssassin Leads A Growing List of ... Over the past few weeks, a heated debate has arisen on the Apache SpamAssassin users list regarding the replacement of racially charged terms like “whitelist” and “blacklist” used in the Apache Spamassassin Project’s code with more inclusive language. Certain community members have been ... Read More
	Jul 08, 2020	2020 CARES Act Brings Important Changes for Charitable ... The McGrail Foundation is seeking funds for three initiatives: 1) To develop and publish a free, open source cybersecurity curriculum 2) To continue developing rules for Apache SpamAssassin 3) Online Financial Literacy and Safety for teens, elderly and underserved populations The CARES Act ... Read More
	Jun 08, 2020	Linode Donates Virtual Machines to Support our ... Linode provides simple and affordable cloud computing. The McGrail Foundation is pleased to annouce that Linode has donated 3 years of hosting for two servers to support our Honeypot and Apache SpamAssassin Channel updates for KAM.cf. Read More
	May 08, 2020	Net::validMX Donated to The McGrail Foundation Net::validMX v2.5.0 is released and the project has moved to The McGrail Foundation Net::validMX is a PERL Module to use DNS and/or regular expressions to verify if an email address could be valid. We are pleased to announce the release of v2.5.0 with numerous bug fixes as well as moving the ... Read More
	Mar 05, 2020	AppRiver donates MIMEDefang to The McGrail Foundation Today, we are proud to announce that the MIMEDefang project has been donated to The McGrail Foundation. This includes source code, website, and domains. However, due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, the integration of this project is going to take some time! Please keep an eye out on the MIMEDefang ... Read More
	Jun 14, 2019	iSpark IT Services Thanks to iSpark IT Services and Nitin Shrivastav for their help in designing The McGrail Foundation Website and our new logo. Read More
	Jun 20, 2018	KAM.cf Donated to McGrail Foundation Since 2004, the KAM.cf Apache SpamAssassin ruleset has been provided for free to help battle spammers. Today, it is incorporated into numerous commercial platforms and protects hundreds of millions of mailboxes daily. As of today, KAM.cf has been donated and moved over to The McGrail Foundation ... Read More