Is identity theft on the rise, or is it a problem that has been vastly overhyped? Recent incidents of lost or stolen laptops have focused public attention on the huge amount of personal information ...

Internet service provider EarthLink Inc. will soon begin testing new e-mail security technology, including Microsoft Corp.’s recently released Caller ID technology, a company executive said. EarthLink ...

It appears many Mail users are having authentication problems in which they are prompted for the username and password every time a message is sent (either manually ...

CAMBRIDGE, MASS — Sender Policy Framework, a specification designed to authenticate e-mail senders and therefore cut down on spam, has one significant flaw — which a technologist presenting at the MIT ...

Spam and its evil offshoot, phishing, have become growing problems on the Internet. Not only has spam become a nuisance with its frequently offensive subject matter, but it is consuming increasing ...

This week’s powwow of e-mail heavyweights in Chicago returned the IT community’s attention to the issue of e-mail message authentication, but the messaging community has too little to show for a ...

In his keynote address to the RSA Security Conference a couple of weeks ago, Microsoft Chief Mouthpiece, Bill Gates, twittered on about something he called “Caller ID for E-mail” as a way of ...

E-mail authentication can help fight the growing spam e-mail problem, but vendors need to come up with a single, open standard to avoid confusion and crippling costs for small ISPs (Internet service ...

With an eye toward preventing spam and phishing scams, Yahoo! and Cisco Systems late last week launched a technology called DomainKeys Identified Mail to verify the origins of e-mail messages. Sending ...

This weekend, we set up SMTP authentication on the work email server. Windows client can connect just fine (enabling SMTP authentication in Outlook or Outlook Express lets the PC user send mail ...

The board of directors of the Direct Marketing Association voted on Monday to require that all DMA members begin using e-mail authentication protocols. The DMA has created best practices information ...