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.
An engineer who helped develop a new antispam technology called DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) said it's not a foolproof way to keep nasty e-mails out of your inbox, but it is a step in the right direction.
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.
Yahoo and AOL's plans to charge trusted marketers a fee in order to allow their e-mail messages to bypass spam filters has been slammed by security experts and snubbed by Australia's largest online media company, ninemsn.
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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.
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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