IT executives say they aren’t deterred by a lack of standardization among developers of e-mail authentication software. E-mail authentication is not an either/or proposition. As ISPs, e-mail service ...

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 ...

Some observers criticize IT vendors for not agreeing on a single, standard way for dealing with evil e-mail. The key e-mail authentication protocols are Microsoft’s Sender ID Framework (SIDF), with ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chicago–Different classes of e-mail are “absolutely inevitable” if the system is to advance to the point where users can trust it, said Richard Gingras, CEO of Goodmail Systems, the company whose ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

More than 35 percent of all e-mail sent is now authenticated, according to a release from a vendor group comprising the Email Authentication Summit Steering Committee. Driving the movement, says the ...

Some macOS 15.5 Mail users are dealing with authentication issues when using the app with Microsoft or Google accounts. It's not yet clear why. Issues with Apple Software are an occasional problem for ...

Methods to authenticate e-mail senders will finally be in widespread testing, thanks to initiatives from Microsoft, Yahoo! and their partners. Testing programs are intended to modify the sending and ...