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Mobile providers have been suggesting this for a while now (here’s me talking about Verizon and this service apparently goes back ten years) — report that SMS spam so that somebody can do something about it! But the reporting process (at least on iPhone) was clunky. Manually forward the content of an SMS message to 7726 and then the 7726 bot replies, requesting the source phone number, which you can then provide. Not the slickest process. Apparently, Android has had a solution to this for a while now, and Apple joins them with iOS 16, offering a much easier way to report an unwanted SMS message as spam! Proofpoint explains here that now, with iOS 16, users can hit the “report junk” link under the unwanted message, and a report will be sent both to Apple and to Proofpoint to help guide future SMS spam filtering efforts. YAY! Because SMS spam sucks!

I noticed these job postings on Linkedin and thought I would share them along because email/mobile messaging/abuse fighting engineering roles are kind of scarce and rather a fun area to work in, I suspect. And I’ve got a friend who recently went to this company and seems really happy there.First, a position based in France that really interests me. Maybe I need to move to France and apply for this one. But assuming I don’t, here’s what you need to know:”Cloudmark as part of Proofpoint is looking for a Messaging Gateway Software Engineer to join our engineering team in Paris. The Cloudmark team builds software to provide high performance messaging security services to customers around the world, including AT&T, Comcast, Orange and Swisscom. We are looking for someone who is passionate about building high performance software and joining the fight against messaging abuse.”Interested? Click here for more details and/or to…

Here’s one I almost missed, from a couple of weeks ago: According to Wired, Cloudflare is moving into the email security space. The goal? To better protect against email-delivered threats (think phishing). They see a gap there; one I’ve noticed myself.From the article Cloudflare Is Taking a Shot at Email Security by Lily Hay Newman: “Prince says that Cloudflare employees have been “astonished by how many targeted threats were getting through Google Workspace,” the company’s email provider. That’s not for lack of progress by Google or the other big providers on anti-spam and anti-malware efforts, he adds. But with so many types of email threats to deal with at once, strategically crafted phishing messages still slip through. So Cloudflare decided to build additional defense tools that both the company itself as well as its customers could use.”I’m using a bit of cheeky hyperbole up there in my choice of title, but…