Google on Tuesday said it is now using an email authentication technology to keep phishers from luring Gmail users to fake eBay and PayPal Web pages in order to steal usernames and passwords.
If you use Yahoo Mail you should soon be seeing a significant reduction in the number of e-mail scams purporting to be from eBay and PayPal.
Google's popular free Web-based e-mail service is testing phishing protection designed to alert users to potential e-mail fraud attacks.
A coalition aiming to erase junk e-mail unites behind the law but stumbles over technology.
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.
Security experts are warning that an email claiming to contain a video of Osama Bin Laden's reaction to the US election result contains a worm. The email is signed by The Hobbit.
A coalition aiming to junk e-mail unites behind a US law but stumbles over a technology solution.
It is vital that the tech industry raises awareness of the scale of the problem of junk e-mail, industry experts said.
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The world's e-mail network is no longer the friendly place it once was and authentication could mean the end for the platform as we know it.
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