A host of software companies, security firms and internet service providers met in Chicago on Wednesday to urge corporations and bulk message senders to adopt email authentication technologies.
The technologies, known as Sender ID and DomainKeys, aim to allow email recipients to positively identify the sender of an email message and hold the promise of giving service providers the tools they need to effectively end spam and phishing attacks.
The promise of e-mail authentication is too good to ignore, but if it is implemented incorrectly it will break a company’s mail system instead of fixing it, experts have cautioned.
“Deploy smart. Don’t just do it,” Erik Johnson, a secure messaging executive at Bank of America, said in a presentation at the Authentication Summit in Chicago on Wednesday. “If you just do it, you may just break it.”
AOL denied today that it blocked customer e-mail that includes links to a group opposing the company’s proposal to begin charging a voluntary fee for certain e-mail.
Thursday, the DearAOL.com Coalition issued a press release charging AOL with blocking all e-mails with links to the coalition.
A small security firm in Iowa says it has discovered why Yahoo’s email is sometimes slow.
An analysis of Yahoo Inc. mail servers found that they were only able to accept email about half the time on average, making it likely that email was taking longer than normal to deliver, the security firm said Friday.
APRIL 14, 2006 (COMPUTERWORLD) - Critics of America Online Inc.’s proposed “pay-to-send” e-mail program were angered earlier this week when e-mail messages containing their www.DearAOL.com Web page links were automatically bounced back to senders by AOL’s antispam filters.
If you think you private information on the Internet is safe from prying eyes, think again. The advancement of such technology has made more information readily available to government investigators than ever before which give them more powers eaving a treasure trove of personal data prey to government surveillance, a new report warned.
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