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08-13-2004, 12:42 PM
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,117338,0 0.asp
http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/groupware/story/0,10801,95185,00.html
Internet service providers America Online Inc. and Yahoo Inc. plan to begin using technology to verify the source of e-mail messages in coming months as both companies step up efforts to stop spam e-mail.
In September, AOL will verify the source of incoming e-mail using a component of Microsoft Corp.'s Sender ID authentication architecture. Yahoo will use its DomainKeys authentication technology to sign all e-mail coming out of the company's mail servers by the end of 2004, according to spokesmen for the companies. The decisions are part of an industrywide push to thwart spam and online scams known as "phishing" attacks by improving the ability of Internet service and e-mail providers to verify the source of messages, according to interviews with executives from e-mail technology companies.
AOL will screen e-mail using Sender Policy Framework technology, AOL spokesman Nicholas Graham said in an e-mail statement. SPF is part of Sender ID, a proposed technology standard backed by Microsoft for verifying a message's source.
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http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/groupware/story/0,10801,95185,00.html
Internet service providers America Online Inc. and Yahoo Inc. plan to begin using technology to verify the source of e-mail messages in coming months as both companies step up efforts to stop spam e-mail.
In September, AOL will verify the source of incoming e-mail using a component of Microsoft Corp.'s Sender ID authentication architecture. Yahoo will use its DomainKeys authentication technology to sign all e-mail coming out of the company's mail servers by the end of 2004, according to spokesmen for the companies. The decisions are part of an industrywide push to thwart spam and online scams known as "phishing" attacks by improving the ability of Internet service and e-mail providers to verify the source of messages, according to interviews with executives from e-mail technology companies.
AOL will screen e-mail using Sender Policy Framework technology, AOL spokesman Nicholas Graham said in an e-mail statement. SPF is part of Sender ID, a proposed technology standard backed by Microsoft for verifying a message's source.
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