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Last updated: April 6, 2007 6:15:54 PM Pacific Time
eWEEK: Speakers at E-Mail Summit Push Authentication, Reputation Tools . Representatives from 37 e-mail technology companies used a one-day Summit in New York on Tuesday to exhort private sector administrators and online marketers to adopt e-mail sender authentication technology that helps block spam and phishing attacks. eWEEK: New E-Mail Authentication Spec Submitted to IETF. The specifications for DomainKeys Identified Mail, or DKIM, were submitted to the IETF on Monday for consideration as a new e-mail authentication standard. DKIM has been in development since August and combines technology from Yahoo and Cisco. eWEEK: Industry Looks into Cloudy Future for Authentication. ISPs, large enterprises and e-mail security companies are hoping that an industry meeting in New York this week will breathe life into a flagging effort to thwart spam and e-mail viruses through the adoption of e-mail sender authentication technology. PC World: Hotmail Takes a Tougher Stance on Spam. The software maker has begun warning Hotmail users with an on-screen alert when the sender of an incoming e-mail cannot be verified using its Sender ID Framework. Mail that fails to pass the test will be placed in a junk mail folder or could even be deleted... Schneier on Security: Combating Spam. The best solutions raise the cost of spam. Spam filters raise the cost by increasing the amount of spam that someone needs to send before someone will read it. If 99% of all spam is filtered into trash, then sending spam becomes 100 times more expensive. PC World: IBM Fights Spam With FairUCE. New technology from IBM is designed to stop spam by identifying the Internet domain it came from, and can help spot online scams such as phishing attacks and e-mail spoofing. The company this week announced the release of FairUCE, or for the company's alphaWorks advanced technology program... Wired News: Turning the Tables on Spammers. The activists, speaking at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said they plan to take their fight out of the inbox to the spammers themselves with technologies that gather evidence they need to sue the bad actors and send them to jail. Wired News: Verizon's E-Mail Embargo Enrages. Verizon Communications customers expecting e-mail from across the pond may be in for a long wait. The internet service provider has been blocking e-mail originating from Great Britain and other parts of Europe for weeks, and customers are upset about having their communications disrupted without notice. eWEEK: Lycos Offers Customers Program to Attack Spam Servers. At the risk of breaching Internet civility, Lycos Europe is offering computer-users a weapon against spam-spewing servers: a screen-saver program that automatically hits the offenders with data to slow them down. eWEEK: The Beginning of the Crypto Era. The collapse of MARID brought forth a call for experimentation with the various proposals in the hope that the experience would inform the standards process and help to produce a consensus. We're lucky. The experimentation so far has formed along the lines one would expect, meaning the proposals backed by the major players.
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