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One giant step against spam
Insight Non-proprietary, interoperable and easy-to-adopt anti-spam standards have all fallen short, said David Berlind, until now.
Antispam spec sets off on path to standard
News Yahoo, Cisco and partners have submitted DomainKeys Identified Mail, which helps verify the sender of a message, to a standards body.
Tags: Standards, Data security
Sendmail firming up open-source plans
News E-mail software company will make some proprietary products open source if legal and patent concerns can be addressed.
Tags: E-mail clients, Open source, IT strategy
Gmail users protected from fake eBay, PayPal e-mail
News Google is using the DomainKeys e-mail authentication technology to block phishing e-mail messages ostensibly from eBay and PayPal.
Tags: Domain names, Spam and phishing, Security, E-mail servers, E-mail clients, Phishing, PayPal, Google Inc., DomainKeys, eBay Inc.
Promising antispam technique gets nod
News Internet Engineering Task Force approves a technique designed to put junk e-mailers out of business forever.
Tags: Spam and phishing, Security implementation/standards
Gmail tries out antiphishing tools
News Google's Web-based e-mail service is testing technology to help members spot fake messages linked to online fraud schemes.
Tags: Spam and phishing
Spam fighters open up
Insight Yahoo and Microsoft each have put the interests of all Internet e-mail users ahead of their own by not only inventing techniques that could lay the necessary foundation for ending spam, but by making those techniques freely available to competitors.
Open encryption to combat spam and phishing
News Two separate initiatives around open encryption standards could help improve e-commerce security and reduce online fraud.
Tags: Spam and phishing, Authentication and encryption, PKI (public key infrastructure)
Antispam framework scores Microsoft endorsement
News The software giant agrees to merge its Caller ID for E-mail technology with the Sender Policy Framework, making SPF an increasingly important weapon in the fight against junk e-mail.
Tags: Spam and phishing, Spam filtering
Microsoft wants to meld antispam proposals
News The software giant says the spam-blocking proposal backed by America Online should be combined with Microsoft's to more rapidly create a single, industrywide standard.
Tags: Spam filtering
The state of anti-spam
Insight Recent lawsuits against junk e-mailers have portrayed an industry united in the war against spam -- but the truth is that there are few signs that technology standards are being developed to counter spam.
Alliance turns up heat on spam
News The Anti-Spam Technical Alliance, which includes AOL and other major ISPs, releases a set of best practices. Among their recommendations: Kill the "zombies".
Tags: Spam and phishing, Spam filtering
Web site gives e-mail senders a reputation
News New Web site aims to help determine whether a specific computer has been sending legitimate e-mail or spam.
Tags: Spam and phishing, Spam filtering
Should Microsoft own antispam?
News Tech experts hash out how to better block spam. Some don't care which standard is adopted as long as it frees people's in-boxes.
Tags: Spam and phishing, Software
Microsoft touts 'Sender ID' to fight spam, scams
News Proposed tech standard would verify senders' IP addresses to cut malicious phishing and annoying Viagra pitches.
Tags: Spam and phishing
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