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If someone had told you a few years ago that you could read someone’s messages without touching their phone, you probably would not have believed them. However, thanks to technology, even the most unimaginable things are now possible in today’s day and age.

Today, if you want to monitor someone’s text messages, you can easily do so without having their phone with you. Phone or message spy apps can enable you to read anyone’s texts online remotely without them finding out.

What can you do with a spy app?

While these spy apps are easy to use, it is important to note that you can only use the spy app with the person’s consent if they are adults, for instance, the employees in your company. Whoever uses the phone must be notified about the spy software installed on their phone.

At the same time, if you want to monitor your child’s messages under 18 years, you can do so. However, if you want to install spy software on a phone while adhering to legal limitations, you must possess that phone.

The spying software is easy to install and provides ease of use and an effective and accurate way of spying on text messages or calls. The important feature in today’s spying apps is that they are not just basic text message checking devices.

They go way beyond the basic services of checking phone call logs and text messages and provide advanced services; for instance, there are apps that allow you to record live calls or activate cameras and microphones on the targeted messages. There are also apps that allow you to track the location of the targeted phone through GPS. You can also trace down the GPS location history of the phone to find out all the places the phone has been in.

There are also advanced apps that allow you to monitor the activities performed on the phone on other digital platforms, including Snapchat, WhatsApp and Facebook etc.

Ways to monitor text messages with a spy app

If you want to track someone’s text messages through a Spy app tool, there are two ways you can go about it.

• Firstly, if you do not want to install tracking software on the phone, you can simply use online tools. You can go to the website of the spy tool and add the number of the phone you are interested in tracing. It will take you to the phone’s text messages and other activities done on the phone. However, since such software is at risk of being misused by automated devices, such software comes with an anti-bot system and requires you to install a free app as a verification method.
• The second method comes with advanced features and a monthly subscription fee. For this, you need to install the tracking software on the targeted phone. These apps not only provide access to text messages but also provide an insight into the activity on other messaging platforms like Facebook and Snapchat instant messaging. You can read all text messages received and sent on the phone. You can even view the messages which have been deleted. You can control the app from a remote control panel, and the app will convey the required information to your device or account.

Phishing scams and spoofing have become increasingly common during the past few years. Hackers are on a constant lookout for vulnerable domains, and their defense mechanisms can easily be penetrated.

They can then try to impersonate the domain owner’s brand and send emails through what seems to be its domain address. This may lead to spoofing, phishing attacks, spam and fraudulent activities like malware spread, data breach, black market sales, identity thefts, etc. If no action is taken to prevent this, the organization loses its credibility and reputation and even faces financial retributions.

It is thus important to have strong email security and verification program in place. DMARC is an email authenticating protocol that enables an organization to protect its domain from hackers and scams.

How DMARC works

Now let’s look at how DMARC works.

When you publish DMARC for your domain, you can control what happens if a particular message fails the verification test. It means that the recipient’s email server cannot authenticate if the sender of that email is who they say they are.

Messages that are sent to be what appears from the sender’s domain are subjected to a series of authentication checks (in most instances by SPF and DKIM) and are analyzed by the receiving body to determine whether they have actually been sent from the domain in the message.

DMARC is thus responsible for handling the aspect of how the email is to be treated if it fails the authentication tests. Sometimes while other authentication protocols, including SPF ((Sender Policy Framework) or DKIM (Domain keys Identified Mail), pass the email, DMARC may fail it based on its records. This is termed DMARC alignment.

DMARC records are published on the DNS (Domain Name Systems) and provide information on how the email sent from the domain must be handled. As DMARC policy uses DNS to publish the instructions or policy, all email services can decipher how the email from the domain is supposed to be managed.

Should a message fail the authentication test, the recipient’s server determines what to do with it based on the instructions sent by the DMARC records. The email may be sent as it is or, with a warning, or it is quarantined and sent to the spam folder, where it is evaluated manually. Alternatively, it may be rejected altogether.

In short, DMARC acts like a security guard to the email inboxes. If it is implemented properly, an organization can effectively prevent malware attacks, phishing scams and misleading emails from being sent to the inboxes of its employees, customers or clients.